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Synopsis

The prologue of Romeo and Juliet calls the title characters “star-crossed lovers”—and the stars do seem to conspire against these young lovers.

Romeo is a Montague, and Juliet a Capulet. Their families are enmeshed in a feud, but the moment they meet—when Romeo and his friends attend a party at Juliet’s house in disguise—the two fall in love and quickly decide that they want to be married.

A friar secretly marries them, hoping to end the feud. Romeo and his companions almost immediately encounter Juliet’s cousin Tybalt, who challenges Romeo. When Romeo refuses to fight, Romeo’s friend Mercutio accepts the challenge and is killed. Romeo then kills Tybalt and is banished. He spends that night with Juliet and then leaves for Mantua.

Juliet’s father forces her into a marriage with Count Paris. To avoid this marriage, Juliet takes a potion, given her by the friar, that makes her appear dead. The friar will send Romeo word to be at her family tomb when she awakes. The plan goes awry, and Romeo learns instead that she is dead. In the tomb, Romeo kills himself. Juliet wakes, sees his body, and commits suicide. Their deaths appear finally to end the feud.

Enter Chorus.FTLN 0001Two households, both alike in dignityFTLN 0002(In fair Verona, where we lay our scene),FTLN 0003From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,FTLN 0004Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.FTLN 00055From forth the fatal loins of these two foesFTLN 0006A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life;FTLN 0007Whose misadventured piteous overthrowsFTLN 0008Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife.FTLN 0009The fearful passage of their death-marked loveFTLN 001010And the continuance of their parents’ rage,FTLN 0011Which, but their children’s end, naught could remove,FTLN 0012Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage;FTLN 0013The which, if you with patient ears attend,FTLN 0014What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.Chorus exits.

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Enter Sampson and Gregory, with swords and bucklers,of the house of Capulet.

SAMPSONFTLN 0015Gregory, on my word we’ll not carry coals.GREGORYFTLN 0016No, for then we should be colliers.SAMPSONFTLN 0017I mean, an we be in choler, we’ll draw.GREGORYFTLN 0018Ay, while you live, draw your neck out ofFTLN 00195collar.SAMPSONFTLN 0020I strike quickly, being moved.GREGORYFTLN 0021But thou art not quickly moved to strike.SAMPSONFTLN 0022A dog of the house of Montague moves me.GREGORYFTLN 0023To move is to stir, and to be valiant is toFTLN 002410stand. Therefore if thou art moved thou runn’stFTLN 0025away.SAMPSONFTLN 0026A dog of that house shall move me to stand. IFTLN 0027will take the wall of any man or maid of Montague’s.GREGORYFTLN 0028That shows thee a weak slave, for the weakestFTLN 002915goes to the wall.SAMPSONFTLN 0030’Tis true, and therefore women, being theFTLN 0031weaker vessels, are ever thrust to the wall. ThereforeFTLN 0032I will push Montague’s men from the wall andFTLN 0033thrust his maids to the wall.GREGORYFTLN 003420The quarrel is between our masters and usFTLN 0035their men.SAMPSONFTLN 0036’Tis all one. I will show myself a tyrant.FTLN 0037When I have fought with the men, I will be civilFTLN 0038with the maids; I will cut off their heads.

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GREGORYFTLN 003925The heads of the maids?SAMPSONFTLN 0040Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads.FTLN 0041Take it in what sense thou wilt.GREGORYFTLN 0042They must take it in sense that feel it.SAMPSONFTLN 0043Me they shall feel while I am able to stand,FTLN 004430and ’tis known I am a pretty piece of flesh.GREGORYFTLN 0045’Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thouFTLN 0046hadst been poor-john. Draw thy tool. Here comesFTLN 0047of the house of Montagues.

Enter Abram with another Servingman.

SAMPSONFTLN 0048My naked weapon is out. Quarrel, I will backFTLN 004935thee.GREGORYFTLN 0050How? Turn thy back and run?SAMPSONFTLN 0051Fear me not.GREGORYFTLN 0052No, marry. I fear thee!SAMPSONFTLN 0053Let us take the law of our sides; let themFTLN 005440begin.GREGORYFTLN 0055I will frown as I pass by, and let them take itFTLN 0056as they list.SAMPSONFTLN 0057Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb atFTLN 0058them, which is disgrace to them if they bear it.He bites his thumb.ABRAMFTLN 005945Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?SAMPSONFTLN 0060I do bite my thumb, sir.ABRAMFTLN 0061Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?SAMPSON, aside to GregoryFTLN 0062Is the law of our side if IFTLN 0063say “Ay”?GREGORY, aside to SampsonFTLN 006450No.SAMPSONFTLN 0065No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir,FTLN 0066but I bite my thumb, sir.GREGORYFTLN 0067Do you quarrel, sir?ABRAMFTLN 0068Quarrel, sir? No, sir.SAMPSONFTLN 006955But if you do, sir, I am for you. I serve asFTLN 0070good a man as you.ABRAMFTLN 0071No better.

TYBALTFTLN 0081What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds?FTLN 0082Turn thee, Benvolio; look upon thy death.BENVOLIOFTLN 0083I do but keep the peace. Put up thy sword,FTLN 008470Or manage it to part these men with me.TYBALTFTLN 0085What, drawn and talk of peace? I hate the wordFTLN 0086As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee.FTLN 0087Have at thee, coward!They fight.

Enter three or four Citizens with clubs or partisans.

CITIZENSFTLN 0088Clubs, bills, and partisans! Strike! Beat them down!FTLN 008975Down with the Capulets! Down with the Montagues!

PRINCEFTLN 0097Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace,FTLN 0098Profaners of this neighbor-stainèd steel—FTLN 009985Will they not hear?—What ho! You men, you beasts,FTLN 0100That quench the fire of your pernicious rageFTLN 0101With purple fountains issuing from your veins:FTLN 0102On pain of torture, from those bloody handsFTLN 0103Throw your mistempered weapons to the ground,FTLN 010490And hear the sentence of your movèd prince.FTLN 0105Three civil brawls bred of an airy wordFTLN 0106By thee, old Capulet, and Montague,FTLN 0107Have thrice disturbed the quiet of our streetsFTLN 0108And made Verona’s ancient citizensFTLN 010995Cast by their grave-beseeming ornamentsFTLN 0110To wield old partisans in hands as old,FTLN 0111Cankered with peace, to part your cankered hate.FTLN 0112If ever you disturb our streets again,FTLN 0113Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.FTLN 0114100For this time all the rest depart away.FTLN 0115You, Capulet, shall go along with me,FTLN 0116And, Montague, come you this afternoonFTLN 0117To know our farther pleasure in this case,FTLN 0118To old Free-town, our common judgment-place.FTLN 0119105Once more, on pain of death, all men depart.All but Montague, Lady Montague,and Benvolio exit.

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MONTAGUE, to BenvolioFTLN 0120Who set this ancient quarrel new abroach?FTLN 0121Speak, nephew, were you by when it began?BENVOLIOFTLN 0122Here were the servants of your adversary,FTLN 0123And yours, close fighting ere I did approach.FTLN 0124110I drew to part them. In the instant cameFTLN 0125The fiery Tybalt with his sword prepared,FTLN 0126Which, as he breathed defiance to my ears,FTLN 0127He swung about his head and cut the winds,FTLN 0128Who, nothing hurt withal, hissed him in scorn.FTLN 0129115While we were interchanging thrusts and blowsFTLN 0130Came more and more and fought on part and part,FTLN 0131Till the Prince came, who parted either part.LADY MONTAGUEFTLN 0132O, where is Romeo? Saw you him today?FTLN 0133Right glad I am he was not at this fray.BENVOLIOFTLN 0134120Madam, an hour before the worshiped sunFTLN 0135Peered forth the golden window of the east,FTLN 0136A troubled mind drove me to walk abroad,FTLN 0137Where underneath the grove of sycamoreFTLN 0138That westward rooteth from this city side,FTLN 0139125So early walking did I see your son.FTLN 0140Towards him I made, but he was ’ware of meFTLN 0141And stole into the covert of the wood.FTLN 0142I, measuring his affections by my ownFTLN 0143(Which then most sought where most might not beFTLN 0144130found,FTLN 0145Being one too many by my weary self),FTLN 0146Pursued my humor, not pursuing his,FTLN 0147And gladly shunned who gladly fled from me.MONTAGUEFTLN 0148Many a morning hath he there been seen,FTLN 0149135With tears augmenting the fresh morning’s dew,FTLN 0150Adding to clouds more clouds with his deep sighs.

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FTLN 0151But all so soon as the all-cheering sunFTLN 0152Should in the farthest east begin to drawFTLN 0153The shady curtains from Aurora’s bed,FTLN 0154140Away from light steals home my heavy sonFTLN 0155And private in his chamber pens himself,FTLN 0156Shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out,FTLN 0157And makes himself an artificial night.FTLN 0158Black and portentous must this humor prove,FTLN 0159145Unless good counsel may the cause remove.BENVOLIOFTLN 0160My noble uncle, do you know the cause?MONTAGUEFTLN 0161I neither know it nor can learn of him.BENVOLIOFTLN 0162Have you importuned him by any means?MONTAGUEFTLN 0163Both by myself and many other friends.FTLN 0164150But he, his own affections’ counselor,FTLN 0165Is to himself—I will not say how true,FTLN 0166But to himself so secret and so close,FTLN 0167So far from sounding and discovery,FTLN 0168As is the bud bit with an envious wormFTLN 0169155Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the airFTLN 0170Or dedicate his beauty to the same.FTLN 0171Could we but learn from whence his sorrows grow,FTLN 0172We would as willingly give cure as know.

BENVOLIOFTLN 0177Good morrow, cousin.ROMEOFTLN 0178Is the day so young?BENVOLIOFTLN 0179165But new struck nine.ROMEOFTLN 0180Ay me, sad hours seem long.FTLN 0181Was that my father that went hence so fast?BENVOLIOFTLN 0182It was. What sadness lengthens Romeo’s hours?ROMEOFTLN 0183Not having that which, having, makes them short.BENVOLIOFTLN 0184170In love?ROMEOFTLN 0185Out—BENVOLIOFTLN 0186Of love?ROMEOFTLN 0187Out of her favor where I am in love.BENVOLIOFTLN 0188Alas that love, so gentle in his view,FTLN 0189175Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!ROMEOFTLN 0190Alas that love, whose view is muffled still,FTLN 0191Should without eyes see pathways to his will!FTLN 0192Where shall we dine?—O me! What fray was here?FTLN 0193Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all.FTLN 0194180Here’s much to do with hate, but more with love.FTLN 0195Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate,FTLN 0196O anything of nothing first create!FTLN 0197O heavy lightness, serious vanity,FTLN 0198Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms,FTLN 0199185Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health,FTLN 0200Still-waking sleep that is not what it is!FTLN 0201This love feel I, that feel no love in this.FTLN 0202Dost thou not laugh?BENVOLIOFTLN 0203No, coz, I rather weep.ROMEOFTLN 0204190Good heart, at what?

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BENVOLIOFTLN 0205At thy good heart’s oppression.ROMEOFTLN 0206Why, such is love’s transgression.FTLN 0207Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast,FTLN 0208Which thou wilt propagate to have it pressedFTLN 0209195With more of thine. This love that thou hast shownFTLN 0210Doth add more grief to too much of mine own.FTLN 0211Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs;FTLN 0212Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes;FTLN 0213Being vexed, a sea nourished with loving tears.FTLN 0214200What is it else? A madness most discreet,FTLN 0215A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.FTLN 0216Farewell, my coz.BENVOLIOFTLN 0217Soft, I will go along.FTLN 0218An if you leave me so, you do me wrong.ROMEOFTLN 0219205Tut, I have lost myself. I am not here.FTLN 0220This is not Romeo. He’s some other where.BENVOLIOFTLN 0221Tell me in sadness, who is that you love?ROMEOFTLN 0222What, shall I groan and tell thee?BENVOLIOFTLN 0223Groan? Why, no. But sadly tell me who.ROMEOFTLN 0224210A sick man in sadness makes his will—FTLN 0225A word ill urged to one that is so ill.FTLN 0226In sadness, cousin, I do love a woman.BENVOLIOFTLN 0227I aimed so near when I supposed you loved.ROMEOFTLN 0228A right good markman! And she’s fair I love.BENVOLIOFTLN 0229215A right fair mark, fair coz, is soonest hit.ROMEOFTLN 0230Well in that hit you miss. She’ll not be hitFTLN 0231With Cupid’s arrow. She hath Dian’s wit,FTLN 0232And, in strong proof of chastity well armed,

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FTLN 0233From love’s weak childish bow she lives uncharmed.FTLN 0234220She will not stay the siege of loving terms,FTLN 0235Nor bide th’ encounter of assailing eyes,FTLN 0236Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold.FTLN 0237O, she is rich in beauty, only poorFTLN 0238That, when she dies, with beauty dies her store.BENVOLIOFTLN 0239225Then she hath sworn that she will still live chaste?ROMEOFTLN 0240She hath, and in that sparing makes huge waste;FTLN 0241For beauty, starved with her severity,FTLN 0242Cuts beauty off from all posterity.FTLN 0243She is too fair, too wise, wisely too fair,FTLN 0244230To merit bliss by making me despair.FTLN 0245She hath forsworn to love, and in that vowFTLN 0246Do I live dead, that live to tell it now.BENVOLIOFTLN 0247Be ruled by me. Forget to think of her.ROMEOFTLN 0248O, teach me how I should forget to think!BENVOLIOFTLN 0249235By giving liberty unto thine eyes.FTLN 0250Examine other beauties.ROMEOFTLN 0251’Tis the wayFTLN 0252To call hers, exquisite, in question more.FTLN 0253These happy masks that kiss fair ladies’ brows,FTLN 0254240Being black, puts us in mind they hide the fair.FTLN 0255He that is strucken blind cannot forgetFTLN 0256The precious treasure of his eyesight lost.FTLN 0257Show me a mistress that is passing fair;FTLN 0258What doth her beauty serve but as a noteFTLN 0259245Where I may read who passed that passing fair?FTLN 0260Farewell. Thou canst not teach me to forget.BENVOLIOFTLN 0261I’ll pay that doctrine or else die in debt.They exit.

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Scene2

Enter Capulet, County Paris, and a Servingman.

CAPULETFTLN 0262But Montague is bound as well as I,FTLN 0263In penalty alike, and ’tis not hard, I think,FTLN 0264For men so old as we to keep the peace.PARISFTLN 0265Of honorable reckoning are you both,FTLN 02665And pity ’tis you lived at odds so long.FTLN 0267But now, my lord, what say you to my suit?CAPULETFTLN 0268But saying o’er what I have said before.FTLN 0269My child is yet a stranger in the world.FTLN 0270She hath not seen the change of fourteen years.FTLN 027110Let two more summers wither in their prideFTLN 0272Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.PARISFTLN 0273Younger than she are happy mothers made.CAPULETFTLN 0274And too soon marred are those so early made.FTLN 0275Earth hath swallowed all my hopes but she;FTLN 027615She’s the hopeful lady of my earth.FTLN 0277But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart;FTLN 0278My will to her consent is but a part.FTLN 0279And, she agreed, within her scope of choiceFTLN 0280Lies my consent and fair according voice.FTLN 028120This night I hold an old accustomed feast,FTLN 0282Whereto I have invited many a guestFTLN 0283Such as I love; and you among the store,FTLN 0284One more, most welcome, makes my number more.FTLN 0285At my poor house look to behold this nightFTLN 028625Earth-treading stars that make dark heaven light.FTLN 0287Such comfort as do lusty young men feelFTLN 0288When well-appareled April on the heelFTLN 0289Of limping winter treads, even such delight

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FTLN 0290Among fresh fennel buds shall you this nightFTLN 029130Inherit at my house. Hear all, all see,FTLN 0292And like her most whose merit most shall be;FTLN 0293Which, on more view of many, mine, being one,FTLN 0294May stand in number, though in reck’ning none.FTLN 0295Come go with me.To Servingman, giving him a list.FTLN 029635Go, sirrah, trudge aboutFTLN 0297Through fair Verona, find those persons outFTLN 0298Whose names are written there, and to them sayFTLN 0299My house and welcome on their pleasure stay.Capulet and Paris exit.SERVINGMANFTLN 0300Find them out whose names are writtenFTLN 030140here! It is written that the shoemaker shouldFTLN 0302meddle with his yard and the tailor with his last, theFTLN 0303fisher with his pencil and the painter with his nets.FTLN 0304But I am sent to find those persons whose namesFTLN 0305are here writ, and can never find what names theFTLN 030645writing person hath here writ. I must to the learned.FTLN 0307In good time!

Enter Benvolio and Romeo.

BENVOLIO, to RomeoFTLN 0308Tut, man, one fire burns out another’s burning;FTLN 0309One pain is lessened by another’s anguish.FTLN 0310Turn giddy, and be helped by backward turning.FTLN 031150One desperate grief cures with another’s languish.FTLN 0312Take thou some new infection to thy eye,FTLN 0313And the rank poison of the old will die.ROMEOFTLN 0314Your plantain leaf is excellent for that.BENVOLIOFTLN 0315For what, I pray thee?ROMEOFTLN 031655For your broken shin.BENVOLIOFTLN 0317Why Romeo, art thou mad?ROMEOFTLN 0318Not mad, but bound more than a madman is,

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FTLN 0319Shut up in prison, kept without my food,FTLN 0320Whipped and tormented, and—good e’en, goodFTLN 032160fellow.SERVINGMANFTLN 0322God gi’ good e’en. I pray, sir, can youFTLN 0323read?ROMEOFTLN 0324Ay, mine own fortune in my misery.SERVINGMANFTLN 0325Perhaps you have learned it withoutFTLN 032665book. But I pray, can you read anything you see?ROMEOFTLN 0327Ay, if I know the letters and the language.SERVINGMANFTLN 0328You say honestly. Rest you merry.ROMEOFTLN 0329Stay, fellow. I can read.(He reads the letter.)FTLN 0330Signior Martino and his wife and daughters,FTLN 033170County Anselme and his beauteous sisters,FTLN 0332The lady widow of Vitruvio,FTLN 0333Signior Placentio and his lovely nieces,FTLN 0334Mercutio and his brother Valentine,FTLN 0335Mine Uncle Capulet, his wife and daughters,FTLN 033675My fair niece Rosaline and Livia,FTLN 0337Signior Valentio and his cousin Tybalt,FTLN 0338Lucio and the lively Helena.FTLN 0339A fair assembly. Whither should they come?SERVINGMANFTLN 0340Up.ROMEOFTLN 034180Whither? To supper?SERVINGMANFTLN 0342To our house.ROMEOFTLN 0343Whose house?SERVINGMANFTLN 0344My master’s.ROMEOFTLN 0345Indeed I should have asked thee that before.SERVINGMANFTLN 034685Now I’ll tell you without asking. MyFTLN 0347master is the great rich Capulet, and, if you be notFTLN 0348of the house of Montagues, I pray come and crush aFTLN 0349cup of wine. Rest you merry.He exits.BENVOLIOFTLN 0350At this same ancient feast of Capulet’s

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FTLN 035190Sups the fair Rosaline whom thou so loves,FTLN 0352With all the admirèd beauties of Verona.FTLN 0353Go thither, and with unattainted eyeFTLN 0354Compare her face with some that I shall show,FTLN 0355And I will make thee think thy swan a crow.ROMEOFTLN 035695When the devout religion of mine eyeFTLN 0357Maintains such falsehood, then turn tears to fire;FTLN 0358And these who, often drowned, could never die,FTLN 0359Transparent heretics, be burnt for liars.FTLN 0360One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sunFTLN 0361100Ne’er saw her match since first the world begun.BENVOLIOFTLN 0362Tut, you saw her fair, none else being by,FTLN 0363Herself poised with herself in either eye;FTLN 0364But in that crystal scales let there be weighedFTLN 0365Your lady’s love against some other maidFTLN 0366105That I will show you shining at this feast,FTLN 0367And she shall scant show well that now seems best.ROMEOFTLN 0368I’ll go along, no such sight to be shown,FTLN 0369But to rejoice in splendor of mine own.They exit.

JULIETFTLN 03745How now, who calls?NURSEFTLN 0375Your mother.JULIETFTLN 0376Madam, I am here. What is your will?LADY CAPULETFTLN 0377This is the matter.—Nurse, give leave awhile.FTLN 0378We must talk in secret.—Nurse, come back again.FTLN 037910I have remembered me, thou ’s hear our counsel.FTLN 0380Thou knowest my daughter’s of a pretty age.NURSEFTLN 0381Faith, I can tell her age unto an hour.LADY CAPULETFTLN 0382She’s not fourteen.NURSEFTLN 0383I’ll lay fourteen of my teeth (and yet, to my teenFTLN 038415be it spoken, I have but four) she’s not fourteen.FTLN 0385How long is it now to Lammastide?LADY CAPULETFTLN 0386A fortnight and odd days.NURSEFTLN 0387Even or odd, of all days in the year,FTLN 0388Come Lammas Eve at night shall she be fourteen.FTLN 038920Susan and she (God rest all Christian souls!)FTLN 0390Were of an age. Well, Susan is with God;FTLN 0391She was too good for me. But, as I said,FTLN 0392On Lammas Eve at night shall she be fourteen.FTLN 0393That shall she. Marry, I remember it well.FTLN 039425’Tis since the earthquake now eleven years,FTLN 0395And she was weaned (I never shall forget it)FTLN 0396Of all the days of the year, upon that day.FTLN 0397For I had then laid wormwood to my dug,FTLN 0398Sitting in the sun under the dovehouse wall.FTLN 039930My lord and you were then at Mantua.FTLN 0400Nay, I do bear a brain. But, as I said,FTLN 0401When it did taste the wormwood on the nippleFTLN 0402Of my dug and felt it bitter, pretty fool,FTLN 0403To see it tetchy and fall out with the dug.FTLN 040435“Shake,” quoth the dovehouse. ’Twas no need, IFTLN 0405trow,

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FTLN 0406To bid me trudge.FTLN 0407And since that time it is eleven years.FTLN 0408For then she could stand high-lone. Nay, by th’FTLN 040940rood,FTLN 0410She could have run and waddled all about,FTLN 0411For even the day before, she broke her brow,FTLN 0412And then my husband (God be with his soul,FTLN 0413He was a merry man) took up the child.FTLN 041445“Yea,” quoth he, “Dost thou fall upon thy face?FTLN 0415Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit,FTLN 0416Wilt thou not, Jule?” And, by my holidam,FTLN 0417The pretty wretch left crying and said “Ay.”FTLN 0418To see now how a jest shall come about!FTLN 041950I warrant, an I should live a thousand years,FTLN 0420I never should forget it. “Wilt thou not, Jule?”FTLN 0421quoth he.FTLN 0422And, pretty fool, it stinted and said “Ay.”LADY CAPULETFTLN 0423Enough of this. I pray thee, hold thy peace.NURSEFTLN 042455Yes, madam, yet I cannot choose but laughFTLN 0425To think it should leave crying and say “Ay.”FTLN 0426And yet, I warrant, it had upon its browFTLN 0427A bump as big as a young cock’rel’s stone,FTLN 0428A perilous knock, and it cried bitterly.FTLN 042960“Yea,” quoth my husband. “Fall’st upon thy face?FTLN 0430Thou wilt fall backward when thou comest to age,FTLN 0431Wilt thou not, Jule?” It stinted and said “Ay.”JULIETFTLN 0432And stint thou, too, I pray thee, nurse, say I.NURSEFTLN 0433Peace. I have done. God mark thee to his grace,FTLN 043465Thou wast the prettiest babe that e’er I nursed.FTLN 0435An I might live to see thee married once,FTLN 0436I have my wish.

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LADY CAPULETFTLN 0437Marry, that “marry” is the very themeFTLN 0438I came to talk of.—Tell me, daughter Juliet,FTLN 043970How stands your disposition to be married?JULIETFTLN 0440It is an honor that I dream not of.NURSEFTLN 0441An honor? Were not I thine only nurse,FTLN 0442I would say thou hadst sucked wisdom from thyFTLN 0443teat.LADY CAPULETFTLN 044475Well, think of marriage now. Younger than youFTLN 0445Here in Verona, ladies of esteem,FTLN 0446Are made already mothers. By my countFTLN 0447I was your mother much upon these yearsFTLN 0448That you are now a maid. Thus, then, in brief:FTLN 044980The valiant Paris seeks you for his love.NURSEFTLN 0450A man, young lady—lady, such a manFTLN 0451As all the world—why, he’s a man of wax.LADY CAPULETFTLN 0452Verona’s summer hath not such a flower.NURSEFTLN 0453Nay, he’s a flower, in faith, a very flower.LADY CAPULETFTLN 045485What say you? Can you love the gentleman?FTLN 0455This night you shall behold him at our feast.FTLN 0456Read o’er the volume of young Paris’ face,FTLN 0457And find delight writ there with beauty’s pen.FTLN 0458Examine every married lineamentFTLN 045990And see how one another lends content,FTLN 0460And what obscured in this fair volume liesFTLN 0461Find written in the margent of his eyes.FTLN 0462This precious book of love, this unbound lover,FTLN 0463To beautify him only lacks a cover.FTLN 046495The fish lives in the sea, and ’tis much pride

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FTLN 0465For fair without the fair within to hide.FTLN 0466That book in many’s eyes doth share the gloryFTLN 0467That in gold clasps locks in the golden story.FTLN 0468So shall you share all that he doth possessFTLN 0469100By having him, making yourself no less.NURSEFTLN 0470No less? Nay, bigger. Women grow by men.LADY CAPULETFTLN 0471Speak briefly. Can you like of Paris’ love?JULIETFTLN 0472I’ll look to like, if looking liking move.FTLN 0473But no more deep will I endart mine eyeFTLN 0474105Than your consent gives strength to make it fly.

Enter Romeo, Mercutio, Benvolio, with five or six otherMaskers, Torchbearers, and a Boy with a drum.

ROMEOFTLN 0483What, shall this speech be spoke for our excuse?FTLN 0484Or shall we on without apology?BENVOLIOFTLN 0485The date is out of such prolixity.

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FTLN 0486We’ll have no Cupid hoodwinked with a scarf,FTLN 04875Bearing a Tartar’s painted bow of lath,FTLN 0488Scaring the ladies like a crowkeeper,FTLN 0489Nor no without-book prologue, faintly spokeFTLN 0490After the prompter, for our entrance.FTLN 0491But let them measure us by what they will.FTLN 049210We’ll measure them a measure and be gone.ROMEOFTLN 0493Give me a torch. I am not for this ambling.FTLN 0494Being but heavy I will bear the light.MERCUTIOFTLN 0495Nay, gentle Romeo, we must have you dance.ROMEOFTLN 0496Not I, believe me. You have dancing shoesFTLN 049715With nimble soles. I have a soul of leadFTLN 0498So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.MERCUTIOFTLN 0499You are a lover. Borrow Cupid’s wingsFTLN 0500And soar with them above a common bound.ROMEOFTLN 0501I am too sore enpiercèd with his shaftFTLN 050220To soar with his light feathers, and so boundFTLN 0503I cannot bound a pitch above dull woe.FTLN 0504Under love’s heavy burden do I sink.MERCUTIOFTLN 0505And to sink in it should you burden love—FTLN 0506Too great oppression for a tender thing.ROMEOFTLN 050725Is love a tender thing? It is too rough,FTLN 0508Too rude, too boist’rous, and it pricks like thorn.MERCUTIOFTLN 0509If love be rough with you, be rough with love.FTLN 0510Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down.—FTLN 0511Give me a case to put my visage in.—FTLN 051230A visor for a visor. What care IFTLN 0513What curious eye doth cote deformities?FTLN 0514Here are the beetle brows shall blush for me.

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BENVOLIOFTLN 0515Come, knock and enter, and no sooner inFTLN 0516But every man betake him to his legs.ROMEOFTLN 051735A torch for me. Let wantons light of heartFTLN 0518Tickle the senseless rushes with their heels,FTLN 0519For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase:FTLN 0520I’ll be a candle holder and look on;FTLN 0521The game was ne’er so fair, and I am done.MERCUTIOFTLN 052240Tut, dun’s the mouse, the constable’s own word.FTLN 0523If thou art dun, we’ll draw thee from the mire—FTLN 0524Or, save your reverence, love—wherein thouFTLN 0525stickestFTLN 0526Up to the ears. Come, we burn daylight, ho!ROMEOFTLN 052745Nay, that’s not so.MERCUTIOFTLN 0528I mean, sir, in delayFTLN 0529We waste our lights; in vain, light lights by day.FTLN 0530Take our good meaning, for our judgment sitsFTLN 0531Five times in that ere once in our five wits.ROMEOFTLN 053250And we mean well in going to this masque,FTLN 0533But ’tis no wit to go.MERCUTIOFTLN 0534Why, may one ask?ROMEOFTLN 0535I dreamt a dream tonight.MERCUTIOFTLN 0536And so did I.ROMEOFTLN 053755Well, what was yours?MERCUTIOFTLN 0538That dreamers often lie.ROMEOFTLN 0539In bed asleep while they do dream things true.MERCUTIOFTLN 0540O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you.

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FTLN 0541She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comesFTLN 054260In shape no bigger than an agate stoneFTLN 0543On the forefinger of an alderman,FTLN 0544Drawn with a team of little atomiFTLN 0545Over men’s noses as they lie asleep.FTLN 0546Her wagon spokes made of long spinners’ legs,FTLN 054765The cover of the wings of grasshoppers,FTLN 0548Her traces of the smallest spider web,FTLN 0549Her collars of the moonshine’s wat’ry beams,FTLN 0550Her whip of cricket’s bone, the lash of film,FTLN 0551Her wagoner a small gray-coated gnat,FTLN 055270Not half so big as a round little wormFTLN 0553Pricked from the lazy finger of a maid.FTLN 0554Her chariot is an empty hazelnut,FTLN 0555Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub,FTLN 0556Time out o’ mind the fairies’ coachmakers.FTLN 055775And in this state she gallops night by nightFTLN 0558Through lovers’ brains, and then they dream of love;FTLN 0559On courtiers’ knees, that dream on cur’sies straight;FTLN 0560O’er lawyers’ fingers, who straight dream on fees;FTLN 0561O’er ladies’ lips, who straight on kisses dream,FTLN 056280Which oft the angry Mab with blisters plaguesFTLN 0563Because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are.FTLN 0564Sometime she gallops o’er a courtier’s nose,FTLN 0565And then dreams he of smelling out a suit.FTLN 0566And sometime comes she with a tithe-pig’s tail,FTLN 056785Tickling a parson’s nose as he lies asleep;FTLN 0568Then he dreams of another benefice.FTLN 0569Sometime she driveth o’er a soldier’s neck,FTLN 0570And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats,FTLN 0571Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades,FTLN 057290Of healths five fathom deep, and then anonFTLN 0573Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakesFTLN 0574And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or twoFTLN 0575And sleeps again. This is that very MabFTLN 0576That plats the manes of horses in the night

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FTLN 057795And bakes the elflocks in foul sluttish hairs,FTLN 0578Which once untangled much misfortune bodes.FTLN 0579This is the hag, when maids lie on their backs,FTLN 0580That presses them and learns them first to bear,FTLN 0581Making them women of good carriage.FTLN 0582100This is she—ROMEOFTLN 0583Peace, peace, Mercutio, peace.FTLN 0584Thou talk’st of nothing.MERCUTIOFTLN 0585True, I talk of dreams,FTLN 0586Which are the children of an idle brain,FTLN 0587105Begot of nothing but vain fantasy,FTLN 0588Which is as thin of substance as the airFTLN 0589And more inconstant than the wind, who woosFTLN 0590Even now the frozen bosom of the northFTLN 0591And, being angered, puffs away from thence,FTLN 0592110Turning his side to the dew-dropping south.BENVOLIOFTLN 0593This wind you talk of blows us from ourselves.FTLN 0594Supper is done, and we shall come too late.ROMEOFTLN 0595I fear too early, for my mind misgivesFTLN 0596Some consequence yet hanging in the starsFTLN 0597115Shall bitterly begin his fearful dateFTLN 0598With this night’s revels, and expire the termFTLN 0599Of a despisèd life closed in my breastFTLN 0600By some vile forfeit of untimely death.FTLN 0601But he that hath the steerage of my courseFTLN 0602120Direct my sail. On, lusty gentlemen.BENVOLIOFTLN 0603Strike, drum.They march about the stageand then withdraw to the side.

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Scene5

Servingmen come forth with napkins.

FIRST SERVINGMANFTLN 0604Where’s Potpan that he helps notFTLN 0605to take away? He shift a trencher? He scrape aFTLN 0606trencher?SECOND SERVINGMANFTLN 0607When good manners shall lieFTLN 06085all in one or two men’s hands, and they unwashedFTLN 0609too, ’tis a foul thing.FIRST SERVINGMANFTLN 0610Away with the joint stools, removeFTLN 0611the court cupboard, look to the plate.—FTLN 0612Good thou, save me a piece of marchpane, and, asFTLN 061310thou loves me, let the porter let in Susan GrindstoneFTLN 0614and Nell.—Anthony and Potpan!THIRD SERVINGMANFTLN 0615Ay, boy, ready.FIRST SERVINGMANFTLN 0616You are looked for and called for,FTLN 0617asked for and sought for, in the great chamber.THIRD SERVINGMANFTLN 061815We cannot be here and there too.FTLN 0619Cheerly, boys! Be brisk awhile, and the longer liverFTLN 0620take all.They move aside.

Enter Capulet and his household, all the guests andgentlewomen to Romeo, Mercutio, Benvolio, and theother Maskers.

CAPULETFTLN 0621Welcome, gentlemen. Ladies that have their toesFTLN 0622Unplagued with corns will walk a bout withFTLN 062320you.—FTLN 0624Ah, my mistresses, which of you allFTLN 0625Will now deny to dance? She that makes dainty,FTLN 0626She, I’ll swear, hath corns. Am I come near youFTLN 0627now?—FTLN 062825Welcome, gentlemen. I have seen the dayFTLN 0629That I have worn a visor and could tellFTLN 0630A whispering tale in a fair lady’s ear,FTLN 0631Such as would please. ’Tis gone, ’tis gone, ’tis gone.

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FTLN 0632You are welcome, gentlemen.—Come, musicians,FTLN 063330play.Music plays and they dance.FTLN 0634A hall, a hall, give room!—And foot it, girls.—FTLN 0635More light, you knaves, and turn the tables up,FTLN 0636And quench the fire; the room is grown too hot.—FTLN 0637Ah, sirrah, this unlooked-for sport comes well.—FTLN 063835Nay, sit, nay, sit, good cousin Capulet,FTLN 0639For you and I are past our dancing days.FTLN 0640How long is ’t now since last yourself and IFTLN 0641Were in a mask?CAPULET’S COUSINFTLN 0642By ’r Lady, thirty years.CAPULETFTLN 064340What, man, ’tis not so much, ’tis not so much.FTLN 0644’Tis since the nuptial of Lucentio,FTLN 0645Come Pentecost as quickly as it will,FTLN 0646Some five and twenty years, and then we masked.CAPULET’S COUSINFTLN 0647’Tis more, ’tis more. His son is elder, sir.FTLN 064845His son is thirty.CAPULETFTLN 0649Will you tell me that?FTLN 0650His son was but a ward two years ago.ROMEO, to a ServingmanFTLN 0651What lady’s that which doth enrich the handFTLN 0652Of yonder knight?SERVINGMANFTLN 065350I know not, sir.ROMEOFTLN 0654O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!FTLN 0655It seems she hangs upon the cheek of nightFTLN 0656As a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear—FTLN 0657Beauty too rich for use, for Earth too dear.FTLN 065855So shows a snowy dove trooping with crowsFTLN 0659As yonder lady o’er her fellows shows.FTLN 0660The measure done, I’ll watch her place of standFTLN 0661And, touching hers, make blessèd my rude hand.FTLN 0662Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight,FTLN 066360For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.

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TYBALTFTLN 0664This, by his voice, should be a Montague.—FTLN 0665Fetch me my rapier, boy.Page exits.FTLN 0666What, dares the slaveFTLN 0667Come hither covered with an antic faceFTLN 066865To fleer and scorn at our solemnity?FTLN 0669Now, by the stock and honor of my kin,FTLN 0670To strike him dead I hold it not a sin.CAPULETFTLN 0671Why, how now, kinsman? Wherefore storm you so?TYBALTFTLN 0672Uncle, this is a Montague, our foe,FTLN 067370A villain that is hither come in spiteFTLN 0674To scorn at our solemnity this night.CAPULETFTLN 0675Young Romeo is it?TYBALTFTLN 0676’Tis he, that villain Romeo.CAPULETFTLN 0677Content thee, gentle coz. Let him alone.FTLN 067875He bears him like a portly gentleman,FTLN 0679And, to say truth, Verona brags of himFTLN 0680To be a virtuous and well-governed youth.FTLN 0681I would not for the wealth of all this townFTLN 0682Here in my house do him disparagement.FTLN 068380Therefore be patient. Take no note of him.FTLN 0684It is my will, the which if thou respect,FTLN 0685Show a fair presence and put off these frowns,FTLN 0686An ill-beseeming semblance for a feast.TYBALTFTLN 0687It fits when such a villain is a guest.FTLN 068885I’ll not endure him.CAPULETFTLN 0689He shall be endured.FTLN 0690What, goodman boy? I say he shall. Go to.FTLN 0691Am I the master here or you? Go to.FTLN 0692You’ll not endure him! God shall mend my soul,

ROMEOFTLN 0720Then move not while my prayer’s effect I take.He kisses her.FTLN 0721Thus from my lips, by thine, my sin is purged.JULIETFTLN 0722Then have my lips the sin that they have took.ROMEOFTLN 0723120Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urged!FTLN 0724Give me my sin again.He kisses her.JULIETFTLN 0725You kiss by th’ book.NURSEFTLN 0726Madam, your mother craves a word with you.Juliet moves toward her mother.ROMEOFTLN 0727What is her mother?NURSEFTLN 0728125Marry, bachelor,FTLN 0729Her mother is the lady of the house,FTLN 0730And a good lady, and a wise and virtuous.FTLN 0731I nursed her daughter that you talked withal.FTLN 0732I tell you, he that can lay hold of herFTLN 0733130Shall have the chinks.Nurse moves away.ROMEO, asideFTLN 0734Is she a Capulet?FTLN 0735O dear account! My life is my foe’s debt.BENVOLIOFTLN 0736Away, begone. The sport is at the best.ROMEOFTLN 0737Ay, so I fear. The more is my unrest.CAPULETFTLN 0738135Nay, gentlemen, prepare not to be gone.FTLN 0739We have a trifling foolish banquet towards.—FTLN 0740Is it e’en so? Why then, I thank you all.FTLN 0741I thank you, honest gentlemen. Good night.—FTLN 0742More torches here.—Come on then, let’s to bed.—FTLN 0743140Ah, sirrah, by my fay, it waxes late.FTLN 0744I’ll to my rest.All but Juliet and the Nurse begin to exit.

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JULIETFTLN 0745Come hither, nurse. What is yond gentleman?NURSEFTLN 0746The son and heir of old Tiberio.JULIETFTLN 0747What’s he that now is going out of door?NURSEFTLN 0748145Marry, that, I think, be young Petruchio.JULIETFTLN 0749What’s he that follows here, that would not dance?NURSEFTLN 0750I know not.JULIETFTLN 0751Go ask his name.The Nurse goes. If he be marrièd,FTLN 0752My grave is like to be my wedding bed.NURSE, returningFTLN 0753150His name is Romeo, and a Montague,FTLN 0754The only son of your great enemy.JULIETFTLN 0755My only love sprung from my only hate!FTLN 0756Too early seen unknown, and known too late!FTLN 0757Prodigious birth of love it is to meFTLN 0758155That I must love a loathèd enemy.NURSEFTLN 0759What’s this? What’s this?JULIETFTLN 0760A rhyme I learned even nowFTLN 0761Of one I danced withal.One calls within “Juliet.”NURSEFTLN 0762Anon, anon.FTLN 0763160Come, let’s away. The strangers all are gone.They exit.

ACT2

Enter Chorus.FTLN 0764Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie,FTLN 0765And young affection gapes to be his heir.FTLN 0766That fair for which love groaned for and would die,FTLN 0767With tender Juliet matched, is now not fair.FTLN 07685Now Romeo is beloved and loves again,FTLN 0769Alike bewitchèd by the charm of looks,FTLN 0770But to his foe supposed he must complain,FTLN 0771And she steal love’s sweet bait from fearful hooks.FTLN 0772Being held a foe, he may not have accessFTLN 077310To breathe such vows as lovers use to swear,FTLN 0774And she as much in love, her means much lessFTLN 0775To meet her new belovèd anywhere.FTLN 0776But passion lends them power, time means, to meet,FTLN 0777Temp’ring extremities with extreme sweet.Chorus exits.

BENVOLIOFTLN 0780Romeo, my cousin Romeo, Romeo!MERCUTIOFTLN 0781He is wiseFTLN 07825And, on my life, hath stol’n him home to bed.BENVOLIOFTLN 0783He ran this way and leapt this orchard wall.FTLN 0784Call, good Mercutio.MERCUTIOFTLN 0785Nay, I’ll conjure too.FTLN 0786Romeo! Humors! Madman! Passion! Lover!FTLN 078710Appear thou in the likeness of a sigh.FTLN 0788Speak but one rhyme and I am satisfied.FTLN 0789Cry but “Ay me,” pronounce but “love” andFTLN 0790“dove.”FTLN 0791Speak to my gossip Venus one fair word,FTLN 079215One nickname for her purblind son and heir,FTLN 0793Young Abraham Cupid, he that shot so trimFTLN 0794When King Cophetua loved the beggar maid.—FTLN 0795He heareth not, he stirreth not, he moveth not.FTLN 0796The ape is dead, and I must conjure him.—FTLN 079720I conjure thee by Rosaline’s bright eyes,FTLN 0798By her high forehead, and her scarlet lip,FTLN 0799By her fine foot, straight leg, and quivering thigh,FTLN 0800And the demesnes that there adjacent lie,FTLN 0801That in thy likeness thou appear to us.BENVOLIOFTLN 080225An if he hear thee, thou wilt anger him.MERCUTIOFTLN 0803This cannot anger him. ’Twould anger himFTLN 0804To raise a spirit in his mistress’ circleFTLN 0805Of some strange nature, letting it there standFTLN 0806Till she had laid it and conjured it down.FTLN 080730That were some spite. My invocationFTLN 0808Is fair and honest. In his mistress’ name,FTLN 0809I conjure only but to raise up him.BENVOLIOFTLN 0810Come, he hath hid himself among these trees

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FTLN 0811To be consorted with the humorous night.FTLN 081235Blind is his love and best befits the dark.MERCUTIOFTLN 0813If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.FTLN 0814Now will he sit under a medlar treeFTLN 0815And wish his mistress were that kind of fruitFTLN 0816As maids call medlars when they laugh alone.—FTLN 081740O Romeo, that she were, O, that she wereFTLN 0818An open-arse, thou a pop’rin pear.FTLN 0819Romeo, good night. I’ll to my truckle bed;FTLN 0820This field-bed is too cold for me to sleep.—FTLN 0821Come, shall we go?BENVOLIOFTLN 082245Go, then, for ’tis in vainFTLN 0823To seek him here that means not to be found.They exit.

Scene2

Romeo comes forward.

ROMEOFTLN 0824He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

Enter Juliet above.

FTLN 0825But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?FTLN 0826It is the East, and Juliet is the sun.FTLN 0827Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,FTLN 08285Who is already sick and pale with griefFTLN 0829That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she.FTLN 0830Be not her maid since she is envious.FTLN 0831Her vestal livery is but sick and green,FTLN 0832And none but fools do wear it. Cast it off.FTLN 083310It is my lady. O, it is my love!FTLN 0834O, that she knew she were!FTLN 0835She speaks, yet she says nothing. What of that?FTLN 0836Her eye discourses; I will answer it.

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FTLN 0837I am too bold. ’Tis not to me she speaks.FTLN 083815Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,FTLN 0839Having some business, do entreat her eyesFTLN 0840To twinkle in their spheres till they return.FTLN 0841What if her eyes were there, they in her head?FTLN 0842The brightness of her cheek would shame thoseFTLN 084320starsFTLN 0844As daylight doth a lamp; her eye in heavenFTLN 0845Would through the airy region stream so brightFTLN 0846That birds would sing and think it were not night.FTLN 0847See how she leans her cheek upon her hand.FTLN 084825O, that I were a glove upon that hand,FTLN 0849That I might touch that cheek!JULIETFTLN 0850Ay me.ROMEO, asideFTLN 0851She speaks.FTLN 0852O, speak again, bright angel, for thou artFTLN 085330As glorious to this night, being o’er my head,FTLN 0854As is a wingèd messenger of heavenFTLN 0855Unto the white-upturnèd wond’ring eyesFTLN 0856Of mortals that fall back to gaze on himFTLN 0857When he bestrides the lazy puffing cloudsFTLN 085835And sails upon the bosom of the air.JULIETFTLN 0859O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?FTLN 0860Deny thy father and refuse thy name,FTLN 0861Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,FTLN 0862And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.ROMEO, asideFTLN 086340Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?JULIETFTLN 0864’Tis but thy name that is my enemy.FTLN 0865Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.FTLN 0866What’s Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot,FTLN 0867Nor arm, nor face. O, be some other nameFTLN 086845Belonging to a man.FTLN 0869What’s in a name? That which we call a rose

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FTLN 0870By any other word would smell as sweet.FTLN 0871So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called,FTLN 0872Retain that dear perfection which he owesFTLN 087350Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,FTLN 0874And, for thy name, which is no part of thee,FTLN 0875Take all myself.ROMEOFTLN 0876I take thee at thy word.FTLN 0877Call me but love, and I’ll be new baptized.FTLN 087855Henceforth I never will be Romeo.JULIETFTLN 0879What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night,FTLN 0880So stumblest on my counsel?ROMEOFTLN 0881By a nameFTLN 0882I know not how to tell thee who I am.FTLN 088360My name, dear saint, is hateful to myselfFTLN 0884Because it is an enemy to thee.FTLN 0885Had I it written, I would tear the word.JULIETFTLN 0886My ears have yet not drunk a hundred wordsFTLN 0887Of thy tongue’s uttering, yet I know the sound.FTLN 088865Art thou not Romeo, and a Montague?ROMEOFTLN 0889Neither, fair maid, if either thee dislike.JULIETFTLN 0890How camest thou hither, tell me, and wherefore?FTLN 0891The orchard walls are high and hard to climb,FTLN 0892And the place death, considering who thou art,FTLN 089370If any of my kinsmen find thee here.ROMEOFTLN 0894With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls,FTLN 0895For stony limits cannot hold love out,FTLN 0896And what love can do, that dares love attempt.FTLN 0897Therefore thy kinsmen are no stop to me.JULIETFTLN 089875If they do see thee, they will murder thee.

FTLN 0929Than those that have more coying to be strange.FTLN 0930I should have been more strange, I must confess,FTLN 0931But that thou overheard’st ere I was wareFTLN 0932My true-love passion. Therefore pardon me,FTLN 0933110And not impute this yielding to light love,FTLN 0934Which the dark night hath so discoverèd.ROMEOFTLN 0935Lady, by yonder blessèd moon I vow,FTLN 0936That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops—JULIETFTLN 0937O, swear not by the moon, th’ inconstant moon,FTLN 0938115That monthly changes in her circled orb,FTLN 0939Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.ROMEOFTLN 0940What shall I swear by?JULIETFTLN 0941Do not swear at all.FTLN 0942Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self,FTLN 0943120Which is the god of my idolatry,FTLN 0944And I’ll believe thee.ROMEOFTLN 0945If my heart’s dear love—JULIETFTLN 0946Well, do not swear. Although I joy in thee,FTLN 0947I have no joy of this contract tonight.FTLN 0948125It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden,FTLN 0949Too like the lightning, which doth cease to beFTLN 0950Ere one can say “It lightens.” Sweet, good night.FTLN 0951This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath,FTLN 0952May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.FTLN 0953130Good night, good night. As sweet repose and restFTLN 0954Come to thy heart as that within my breast.ROMEOFTLN 0955O, wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied?JULIETFTLN 0956What satisfaction canst thou have tonight?ROMEOFTLN 0957Th’ exchange of thy love’s faithful vow for mine.

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JULIETFTLN 0958135I gave thee mine before thou didst request it,FTLN 0959And yet I would it were to give again.ROMEOFTLN 0960Wouldst thou withdraw it? For what purpose, love?JULIETFTLN 0961But to be frank and give it thee again.FTLN 0962And yet I wish but for the thing I have.FTLN 0963140My bounty is as boundless as the sea,FTLN 0964My love as deep. The more I give to thee,FTLN 0965The more I have, for both are infinite.Nurse calls from within.FTLN 0966I hear some noise within. Dear love, adieu.—FTLN 0967Anon, good nurse.—Sweet Montague, be true.FTLN 0968145Stay but a little; I will come again.She exits.ROMEOFTLN 0969O blessèd, blessèd night! I am afeard,FTLN 0970Being in night, all this is but a dream,FTLN 0971Too flattering sweet to be substantial.

JULIETFTLN 0992Hist, Romeo, hist! O, for a falc’ner’s voiceFTLN 0993170To lure this tassel-gentle back again!FTLN 0994Bondage is hoarse and may not speak aloud,FTLN 0995Else would I tear the cave where Echo liesFTLN 0996And make her airy tongue more hoarse than mineFTLN 0997With repetition of “My Romeo!”ROMEOFTLN 0998175It is my soul that calls upon my name.FTLN 0999How silver-sweet sound lovers’ tongues by night,FTLN 1000Like softest music to attending ears.JULIETFTLN 1001Romeo.ROMEOFTLN 1002My dear.JULIETFTLN 1003180What o’clock tomorrowFTLN 1004Shall I send to thee?ROMEOFTLN 1005By the hour of nine.JULIETFTLN 1006I will not fail. ’Tis twenty year till then.FTLN 1007I have forgot why I did call thee back.ROMEOFTLN 1008185Let me stand here till thou remember it.JULIETFTLN 1009I shall forget, to have thee still stand there,FTLN 1010Rememb’ring how I love thy company.

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ROMEOFTLN 1011And I’ll still stay, to have thee still forget,FTLN 1012Forgetting any other home but this.JULIETFTLN 1013190’Tis almost morning. I would have thee gone,FTLN 1014And yet no farther than a wanton’s bird,FTLN 1015That lets it hop a little from his hand,FTLN 1016Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves,FTLN 1017And with a silken thread plucks it back again,FTLN 1018195So loving-jealous of his liberty.ROMEOFTLN 1019I would I were thy bird.JULIETFTLN 1020Sweet, so would I.FTLN 1021Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing.FTLN 1022Good night, good night. Parting is such sweetFTLN 1023200sorrowFTLN 1024That I shall say “Good night” till it be morrow.She exits.ROMEOFTLN 1025Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast.FTLN 1026Would I were sleep and peace so sweet to rest.FTLN 1027Hence will I to my ghostly friar’s close cell,FTLN 1028205His help to crave, and my dear hap to tell.He exits.

FTLN 1035I must upfill this osier cage of oursFTLN 1036With baleful weeds and precious-juicèd flowers.FTLN 1037The Earth that’s nature’s mother is her tomb;FTLN 103810What is her burying grave, that is her womb;FTLN 1039And from her womb children of divers kindFTLN 1040We sucking on her natural bosom find,FTLN 1041Many for many virtues excellent,FTLN 1042None but for some, and yet all different.FTLN 104315O, mickle is the powerful grace that liesFTLN 1044In plants, herbs, stones, and their true qualities.FTLN 1045For naught so vile that on the Earth doth liveFTLN 1046But to the Earth some special good doth give;FTLN 1047Nor aught so good but, strained from that fair use,FTLN 104820Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse.FTLN 1049Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied,FTLN 1050And vice sometime by action dignified.

Enter Romeo.

FTLN 1051Within the infant rind of this weak flowerFTLN 1052Poison hath residence and medicine power:FTLN 105325For this, being smelt, with that part cheers eachFTLN 1054part;FTLN 1055Being tasted, stays all senses with the heart.FTLN 1056Two such opposèd kings encamp them stillFTLN 1057In man as well as herbs—grace and rude will;FTLN 105830And where the worser is predominant,FTLN 1059Full soon the canker death eats up that plant.ROMEOFTLN 1060Good morrow, father.FRIAR LAWRENCEFTLN 1061Benedicite.FTLN 1062What early tongue so sweet saluteth me?FTLN 106335Young son, it argues a distempered headFTLN 1064So soon to bid “Good morrow” to thy bed.FTLN 1065Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye,FTLN 1066And, where care lodges, sleep will never lie;FTLN 1067But where unbruisèd youth with unstuffed brain

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FTLN 106840Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep dothFTLN 1069reign.FTLN 1070Therefore thy earliness doth me assureFTLN 1071Thou art uproused with some distemp’rature,FTLN 1072Or, if not so, then here I hit it right:FTLN 107345Our Romeo hath not been in bed tonight.ROMEOFTLN 1074That last is true. The sweeter rest was mine.FRIAR LAWRENCEFTLN 1075God pardon sin! Wast thou with Rosaline?ROMEOFTLN 1076With Rosaline, my ghostly father? No.FTLN 1077I have forgot that name and that name’s woe.FRIAR LAWRENCEFTLN 107850That’s my good son. But where hast thou beenFTLN 1079then?ROMEOFTLN 1080I’ll tell thee ere thou ask it me again.FTLN 1081I have been feasting with mine enemy,FTLN 1082Where on a sudden one hath wounded meFTLN 108355That’s by me wounded. Both our remediesFTLN 1084Within thy help and holy physic lies.FTLN 1085I bear no hatred, blessèd man, for, lo,FTLN 1086My intercession likewise steads my foe.FRIAR LAWRENCEFTLN 1087Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift.FTLN 108860Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift.ROMEOFTLN 1089Then plainly know my heart’s dear love is setFTLN 1090On the fair daughter of rich Capulet.FTLN 1091As mine on hers, so hers is set on mine,FTLN 1092And all combined, save what thou must combineFTLN 109365By holy marriage. When and where and howFTLN 1094We met, we wooed, and made exchange of vowFTLN 1095I’ll tell thee as we pass, but this I pray,FTLN 1096That thou consent to marry us today.

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FRIAR LAWRENCEFTLN 1097Holy Saint Francis, what a change is here!FTLN 109870Is Rosaline, that thou didst love so dear,FTLN 1099So soon forsaken? Young men’s love then liesFTLN 1100Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.FTLN 1101Jesu Maria, what a deal of brineFTLN 1102Hath washed thy sallow cheeks for Rosaline!FTLN 110375How much salt water thrown away in wasteFTLN 1104To season love, that of it doth not taste!FTLN 1105The sun not yet thy sighs from heaven clears,FTLN 1106Thy old groans yet ringing in mine ancient ears.FTLN 1107Lo, here upon thy cheek the stain doth sitFTLN 110880Of an old tear that is not washed off yet.FTLN 1109If e’er thou wast thyself, and these woes thine,FTLN 1110Thou and these woes were all for Rosaline.FTLN 1111And art thou changed? Pronounce this sentenceFTLN 1112then:FTLN 111385Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.ROMEOFTLN 1114Thou chid’st me oft for loving Rosaline.FRIAR LAWRENCEFTLN 1115For doting, not for loving, pupil mine.ROMEOFTLN 1116And bad’st me bury love.FRIAR LAWRENCEFTLN 1117Not in a graveFTLN 111890To lay one in, another out to have.ROMEOFTLN 1119I pray thee, chide me not. Her I love nowFTLN 1120Doth grace for grace and love for love allow.FTLN 1121The other did not so.FRIAR LAWRENCEFTLN 1122O, she knew wellFTLN 112395Thy love did read by rote, that could not spell.FTLN 1124But come, young waverer, come, go with me.FTLN 1125In one respect I’ll thy assistant be,FTLN 1126For this alliance may so happy proveFTLN 1127To turn your households’ rancor to pure love.

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ROMEOFTLN 1128100O, let us hence. I stand on sudden haste.FRIAR LAWRENCEFTLN 1129Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.They exit.

Scene4

Enter Benvolio and Mercutio.

MERCUTIOFTLN 1130Where the devil should this Romeo be?FTLN 1131Came he not home tonight?BENVOLIOFTLN 1132Not to his father’s. I spoke with his man.MERCUTIOFTLN 1133Why, that same pale hard-hearted wench, thatFTLN 11345Rosaline,FTLN 1135Torments him so that he will sure run mad.BENVOLIOFTLN 1136Tybalt, the kinsman to old Capulet,FTLN 1137Hath sent a letter to his father’s house.MERCUTIOFTLN 1138A challenge, on my life.BENVOLIOFTLN 113910Romeo will answer it.MERCUTIOFTLN 1140Any man that can write may answer a letter.BENVOLIOFTLN 1141Nay, he will answer the letter’s master, howFTLN 1142he dares, being dared.MERCUTIOFTLN 1143Alas, poor Romeo, he is already dead,FTLN 114415stabbed with a white wench’s black eye, runFTLN 1145through the ear with a love-song, the very pin of hisFTLN 1146heart cleft with the blind bow-boy’s butt shaft. AndFTLN 1147is he a man to encounter Tybalt?BENVOLIOFTLN 1148Why, what is Tybalt?MERCUTIOFTLN 114920More than prince of cats. O, he’s the courageousFTLN 1150captain of compliments. He fights as you singFTLN 1151prick-song, keeps time, distance, and proportion.

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FTLN 1152He rests his minim rests, one, two, and the third inFTLN 1153your bosom—the very butcher of a silk button, aFTLN 115425duelist, a duelist, a gentleman of the very first houseFTLN 1155of the first and second cause. Ah, the immortalFTLN 1156passado, the punto reverso, the hay!BENVOLIOFTLN 1157The what?MERCUTIOFTLN 1158The pox of such antic, lisping, affectingFTLN 115930phantasimes, these new tuners of accent: “ByFTLN 1160Jesu, a very good blade! A very tall man! A very goodFTLN 1161whore!” Why, is not this a lamentable thing, grandsire,FTLN 1162that we should be thus afflicted with theseFTLN 1163strange flies, these fashion-mongers, these “pardon-me” ’s,FTLN 116435who stand so much on the new formFTLN 1165that they cannot sit at ease on the old bench? O theirFTLN 1166bones, their bones!

Enter Romeo.

BENVOLIOFTLN 1167Here comes Romeo, here comes Romeo.MERCUTIOFTLN 1168Without his roe, like a dried herring. OFTLN 116940flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified! Now is he for theFTLN 1170numbers that Petrarch flowed in. Laura to his ladyFTLN 1171was a kitchen wench (marry, she had a better loveFTLN 1172to berhyme her), Dido a dowdy, Cleopatra a gypsy,FTLN 1173Helen and Hero hildings and harlots, Thisbe a grayFTLN 117445eye or so, but not to the purpose.—Signior Romeo,FTLN 1175bonjour. There’s a French salutation to your FrenchFTLN 1176slop. You gave us the counterfeit fairly last night.ROMEOFTLN 1177Good morrow to you both. What counterfeitFTLN 1178did I give you?MERCUTIOFTLN 117950The slip, sir, the slip. Can you not conceive?ROMEOFTLN 1180Pardon, good Mercutio, my business wasFTLN 1181great, and in such a case as mine a man may strainFTLN 1182courtesy.MERCUTIOFTLN 1183That’s as much as to say such a case asFTLN 118455yours constrains a man to bow in the hams.ROMEOFTLN 1185Meaning, to curtsy.

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MERCUTIOFTLN 1186Thou hast most kindly hit it.ROMEOFTLN 1187A most courteous exposition.MERCUTIOFTLN 1188Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy.ROMEOFTLN 118960“Pink” for flower.MERCUTIOFTLN 1190Right.ROMEOFTLN 1191Why, then is my pump well flowered.MERCUTIOFTLN 1192Sure wit, follow me this jest now till thouFTLN 1193hast worn out thy pump, that when the single soleFTLN 119465of it is worn, the jest may remain, after the wearing,FTLN 1195solely singular.ROMEOFTLN 1196O single-soled jest, solely singular for theFTLN 1197singleness.MERCUTIOFTLN 1198Come between us, good Benvolio. My witsFTLN 119970faints.ROMEOFTLN 1200Switch and spurs, switch and spurs, or I’ll cryFTLN 1201a match.MERCUTIOFTLN 1202Nay, if our wits run the wild-goose chase, IFTLN 1203am done, for thou hast more of the wild goose inFTLN 120475one of thy wits than, I am sure, I have in my wholeFTLN 1205five. Was I with you there for the goose?ROMEOFTLN 1206Thou wast never with me for anything whenFTLN 1207thou wast not there for the goose.MERCUTIOFTLN 1208I will bite thee by the ear for that jest.ROMEOFTLN 120980Nay, good goose, bite not.MERCUTIOFTLN 1210Thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a mostFTLN 1211sharp sauce.ROMEOFTLN 1212And is it not, then, well served into a sweetFTLN 1213goose?MERCUTIOFTLN 121485O, here’s a wit of cheveril that stretchesFTLN 1215from an inch narrow to an ell broad.ROMEOFTLN 1216I stretch it out for that word “broad,” whichFTLN 1217added to the goose, proves thee far and wide aFTLN 1218broad goose.MERCUTIOFTLN 121990Why, is not this better now than groaningFTLN 1220for love? Now art thou sociable, now art thouFTLN 1221Romeo, now art thou what thou art, by art as well as

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FTLN 1222by nature. For this driveling love is like a greatFTLN 1223natural that runs lolling up and down to hide hisFTLN 122495bauble in a hole.BENVOLIOFTLN 1225Stop there, stop there.MERCUTIOFTLN 1226Thou desirest me to stop in my tale againstFTLN 1227the hair.BENVOLIOFTLN 1228Thou wouldst else have made thy tale large.MERCUTIOFTLN 1229100O, thou art deceived. I would have made itFTLN 1230short, for I was come to the whole depth of my taleFTLN 1231and meant indeed to occupy the argument noFTLN 1232longer.

Enter Nurse and her man Peter.

ROMEOFTLN 1233Here’s goodly gear. A sail, a sail!MERCUTIOFTLN 1234105Two, two—a shirt and a smock.NURSEFTLN 1235Peter.PETERFTLN 1236Anon.NURSEFTLN 1237My fan, Peter.MERCUTIOFTLN 1238Good Peter, to hide her face, for her fan’sFTLN 1239110the fairer face.NURSEFTLN 1240God you good morrow, gentlemen.MERCUTIOFTLN 1241God you good e’en, fair gentlewoman.NURSEFTLN 1242Is it good e’en?MERCUTIOFTLN 1243’Tis no less, I tell you, for the bawdy hand ofFTLN 1244115the dial is now upon the prick of noon.NURSEFTLN 1245Out upon you! What a man are you?ROMEOFTLN 1246One, gentlewoman, that God hath made, himselfFTLN 1247to mar.NURSEFTLN 1248By my troth, it is well said: “for himself toFTLN 1249120mar,” quoth he? Gentlemen, can any of you tell meFTLN 1250where I may find the young Romeo?ROMEOFTLN 1251I can tell you, but young Romeo will be olderFTLN 1252when you have found him than he was when youFTLN 1253sought him. I am the youngest of that name, forFTLN 1254125fault of a worse.NURSEFTLN 1255You say well.

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MERCUTIOFTLN 1256Yea, is the worst well? Very well took, i’FTLN 1257faith, wisely, wisely.NURSEFTLN 1258If you be he, sir, I desire some confidence withFTLN 1259130you.BENVOLIOFTLN 1260She will indite him to some supper.MERCUTIOFTLN 1261A bawd, a bawd, a bawd. So ho!ROMEOFTLN 1262What hast thou found?MERCUTIOFTLN 1263No hare, sir, unless a hare, sir, in a LentenFTLN 1264135pie that is something stale and hoar ere it be spent.Singing.FTLN 1265An old hare hoar,FTLN 1266And an old hare hoar,FTLN 1267Is very good meat in Lent.FTLN 1268But a hare that is hoarFTLN 1269140Is too much for a scoreFTLN 1270When it hoars ere it be spent.FTLN 1271Romeo, will you come to your father’s? We’ll toFTLN 1272dinner thither.ROMEOFTLN 1273I will follow you.MERCUTIOFTLN 1274145Farewell, ancient lady. Farewell, lady, lady,FTLN 1275lady.Mercutio and Benvolio exit.NURSEFTLN 1276I pray you, sir, what saucy merchant was thisFTLN 1277that was so full of his ropery?ROMEOFTLN 1278A gentleman, nurse, that loves to hear himselfFTLN 1279150talk and will speak more in a minute than he willFTLN 1280stand to in a month.NURSEFTLN 1281An he speak anything against me, I’ll take himFTLN 1282down, an he were lustier than he is, and twentyFTLN 1283such jacks. An if I cannot, I’ll find those that shall.FTLN 1284155Scurvy knave, I am none of his flirt-gills; I am noneFTLN 1285of his skains-mates.To Peter. And thou must standFTLN 1286by too and suffer every knave to use me at hisFTLN 1287pleasure.PETERFTLN 1288I saw no man use you at his pleasure. If I had,FTLN 1289160my weapon should quickly have been out. I warrantFTLN 1290you, I dare draw as soon as another man, if IFTLN 1291see occasion in a good quarrel, and the law on myFTLN 1292side.

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NURSEFTLN 1293Now, afore God, I am so vexed that every partFTLN 1294165about me quivers. Scurvy knave!To Romeo. PrayFTLN 1295you, sir, a word. And, as I told you, my young ladyFTLN 1296bid me inquire you out. What she bid me say, I willFTLN 1297keep to myself. But first let me tell you, if youFTLN 1298should lead her in a fool’s paradise, as they say, itFTLN 1299170were a very gross kind of behavior, as they say. ForFTLN 1300the gentlewoman is young; and therefore, if youFTLN 1301should deal double with her, truly it were an illFTLN 1302thing to be offered to any gentlewoman, and veryFTLN 1303weak dealing.ROMEOFTLN 1304175Nurse, commend me to thy lady and mistress.FTLN 1305I protest unto thee—NURSEFTLN 1306Good heart, and i’ faith I will tell her as much.FTLN 1307Lord, Lord, she will be a joyful woman.ROMEOFTLN 1308What wilt thou tell her, nurse? Thou dost notFTLN 1309180mark me.NURSEFTLN 1310I will tell her, sir, that you do protest, which, asFTLN 1311I take it, is a gentlemanlike offer.ROMEOFTLN 1312Bid her deviseFTLN 1313Some means to come to shrift this afternoon,FTLN 1314185And there she shall at Friar Lawrence’ cellFTLN 1315Be shrived and married. Here is for thy pains.Offering her money.NURSEFTLN 1316No, truly, sir, not a penny.ROMEOFTLN 1317Go to, I say you shall.NURSEFTLN 1318This afternoon, sir? Well, she shall be there.ROMEOFTLN 1319190And stay, good nurse, behind the abbey wall.FTLN 1320Within this hour my man shall be with theeFTLN 1321And bring thee cords made like a tackled stair,FTLN 1322Which to the high topgallant of my joyFTLN 1323Must be my convoy in the secret night.FTLN 1324195Farewell. Be trusty, and I’ll quit thy pains.FTLN 1325Farewell. Commend me to thy mistress.

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NURSEFTLN 1326Now, God in heaven bless thee! Hark you, sir.ROMEOFTLN 1327What sayst thou, my dear nurse?NURSEFTLN 1328Is your man secret? Did you ne’er hear sayFTLN 1329200“Two may keep counsel, putting one away”?ROMEOFTLN 1330Warrant thee, my man’s as true as steel.NURSEFTLN 1331Well, sir, my mistress is the sweetest lady. Lord,FTLN 1332Lord, when ’twas a little prating thing—O, there isFTLN 1333a nobleman in town, one Paris, that would fain layFTLN 1334205knife aboard, but she, good soul, had as lief see aFTLN 1335toad, a very toad, as see him. I anger her sometimesFTLN 1336and tell her that Paris is the properer man, but I’llFTLN 1337warrant you, when I say so, she looks as pale as anyFTLN 1338clout in the versal world. Doth not rosemary andFTLN 1339210Romeo begin both with a letter?ROMEOFTLN 1340Ay, nurse, what of that? Both with an R.NURSEFTLN 1341Ah, mocker, that’s the dog’s name. R is forFTLN 1342the—No, I know it begins with some other letter,FTLN 1343and she hath the prettiest sententious of it, of youFTLN 1344215and rosemary, that it would do you good to hear it.ROMEOFTLN 1345Commend me to thy lady.NURSEFTLN 1346Ay, a thousand times.—Peter.PETERFTLN 1347Anon.NURSEFTLN 1348Before and apace.They exit.

Scene5

Enter Juliet.

JULIETFTLN 1349The clock struck nine when I did send the Nurse.FTLN 1350In half an hour she promised to return.FTLN 1351Perchance she cannot meet him. That’s not so.FTLN 1352O, she is lame! Love’s heralds should be thoughts,FTLN 13535Which ten times faster glides than the sun’s beams,

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FTLN 1354Driving back shadows over louring hills.FTLN 1355Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw Love,FTLN 1356And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings.FTLN 1357Now is the sun upon the highmost hillFTLN 135810Of this day’s journey, and from nine till twelveFTLN 1359Is three long hours, yet she is not come.FTLN 1360Had she affections and warm youthful blood,FTLN 1361She would be as swift in motion as a ball;FTLN 1362My words would bandy her to my sweet love,FTLN 136315And his to me.FTLN 1364But old folks, many feign as they were dead,FTLN 1365Unwieldy, slow, heavy, and pale as lead.

Enter Nurse and Peter.

FTLN 1366O God, she comes!—O, honey nurse, what news?FTLN 1367Hast thou met with him? Send thy man away.NURSEFTLN 136820Peter, stay at the gate.Peter exits.JULIETFTLN 1369Now, good sweet nurse—O Lord, why lookest thouFTLN 1370sad?FTLN 1371Though news be sad, yet tell them merrily.FTLN 1372If good, thou shamest the music of sweet newsFTLN 137325By playing it to me with so sour a face.NURSEFTLN 1374I am aweary. Give me leave awhile.FTLN 1375Fie, how my bones ache! What a jaunt have I!JULIETFTLN 1376I would thou hadst my bones, and I thy news.FTLN 1377Nay, come, I pray thee, speak. Good, good nurse,FTLN 137830speak.NURSEFTLN 1379Jesu, what haste! Can you not stay awhile?FTLN 1380Do you not see that I am out of breath?JULIETFTLN 1381How art thou out of breath, when thou hast breathFTLN 1382To say to me that thou art out of breath?FTLN 138335The excuse that thou dost make in this delay

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FTLN 1384Is longer than the tale thou dost excuse.FTLN 1385Is thy news good or bad? Answer to that.FTLN 1386Say either, and I’ll stay the circumstance.FTLN 1387Let me be satisfied; is ’t good or bad?NURSEFTLN 138840Well, you have made a simple choice. You knowFTLN 1389not how to choose a man. Romeo? No, not he.FTLN 1390Though his face be better than any man’s, yet his legFTLN 1391excels all men’s, and for a hand and a foot and aFTLN 1392body, though they be not to be talked on, yet theyFTLN 139345are past compare. He is not the flower of courtesy,FTLN 1394but I’ll warrant him as gentle as a lamb. Go thyFTLN 1395ways, wench. Serve God. What, have you dined atFTLN 1396home?JULIETFTLN 1397No, no. But all this did I know before.FTLN 139850What says he of our marriage? What of that?NURSEFTLN 1399Lord, how my head aches! What a head have I!FTLN 1400It beats as it would fall in twenty pieces.FTLN 1401My back o’ t’ other side! Ah, my back, my back!FTLN 1402Beshrew your heart for sending me aboutFTLN 140355To catch my death with jaunting up and down.JULIETFTLN 1404I’ faith, I am sorry that thou art not well.FTLN 1405Sweet, sweet, sweet nurse, tell me, what says myFTLN 1406love?NURSEFTLN 1407Your love says, like an honest gentleman, and aFTLN 140860courteous, and a kind, and a handsome, and, IFTLN 1409warrant, a virtuous—Where is your mother?JULIETFTLN 1410Where is my mother? Why, she is within.FTLN 1411Where should she be? How oddly thou repliest:FTLN 1412“Your love says, like an honest gentleman,FTLN 141365Where is your mother?”NURSEFTLN 1414O God’s lady dear,FTLN 1415Are you so hot? Marry, come up, I trow.

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FTLN 1416Is this the poultice for my aching bones?FTLN 1417Henceforward do your messages yourself.JULIETFTLN 141870Here’s such a coil. Come, what says Romeo?NURSEFTLN 1419Have you got leave to go to shrift today?JULIETFTLN 1420I have.NURSEFTLN 1421Then hie you hence to Friar Lawrence’ cell.FTLN 1422There stays a husband to make you a wife.FTLN 142375Now comes the wanton blood up in your cheeks;FTLN 1424They’ll be in scarlet straight at any news.FTLN 1425Hie you to church. I must another way,FTLN 1426To fetch a ladder by the which your loveFTLN 1427Must climb a bird’s nest soon when it is dark.FTLN 142880I am the drudge and toil in your delight,FTLN 1429But you shall bear the burden soon at night.FTLN 1430Go. I’ll to dinner. Hie you to the cell.JULIETFTLN 1431Hie to high fortune! Honest nurse, farewell.They exit.

Scene6

Enter Friar Lawrence and Romeo.

FRIAR LAWRENCEFTLN 1432So smile the heavens upon this holy actFTLN 1433That after-hours with sorrow chide us not.ROMEOFTLN 1434Amen, amen. But come what sorrow can,FTLN 1435It cannot countervail the exchange of joyFTLN 14365That one short minute gives me in her sight.FTLN 1437Do thou but close our hands with holy words,FTLN 1438Then love-devouring death do what he dare,FTLN 1439It is enough I may but call her mine.FRIAR LAWRENCEFTLN 1440These violent delights have violent ends

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FTLN 144110And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,FTLN 1442Which, as they kiss, consume. The sweetest honeyFTLN 1443Is loathsome in his own deliciousnessFTLN 1444And in the taste confounds the appetite.FTLN 1445Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so.FTLN 144615Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

Enter Juliet.

FTLN 1447Here comes the lady. O, so light a footFTLN 1448Will ne’er wear out the everlasting flint.FTLN 1449A lover may bestride the gossamersFTLN 1450That idles in the wanton summer air,FTLN 145120And yet not fall, so light is vanity.JULIETFTLN 1452Good even to my ghostly confessor.FRIAR LAWRENCEFTLN 1453Romeo shall thank thee, daughter, for us both.JULIETFTLN 1454As much to him, else is his thanks too much.ROMEOFTLN 1455Ah, Juliet, if the measure of thy joyFTLN 145625Be heaped like mine, and that thy skill be moreFTLN 1457To blazon it, then sweeten with thy breathFTLN 1458This neighbor air, and let rich music’s tongueFTLN 1459Unfold the imagined happiness that bothFTLN 1460Receive in either by this dear encounter.JULIETFTLN 146130Conceit, more rich in matter than in words,FTLN 1462Brags of his substance, not of ornament.FTLN 1463They are but beggars that can count their worth,FTLN 1464But my true love is grown to such excessFTLN 1465I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth.FRIAR LAWRENCEFTLN 146635Come, come with me, and we will make short work,FTLN 1467For, by your leaves, you shall not stay aloneFTLN 1468Till Holy Church incorporate two in one.They exit.

ACT3

Scene1

Enter Mercutio, Benvolio, and their men.

BENVOLIOFTLN 1469I pray thee, good Mercutio, let’s retire.FTLN 1470The day is hot, the Capels are abroad,FTLN 1471And if we meet we shall not ’scape a brawl,FTLN 1472For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.MERCUTIOFTLN 14735Thou art like one of these fellows that, whenFTLN 1474he enters the confines of a tavern, claps me hisFTLN 1475sword upon the table and says “God send me noFTLN 1476need of thee” and, by the operation of the secondFTLN 1477cup, draws him on the drawer when indeed there isFTLN 147810no need.BENVOLIOFTLN 1479Am I like such a fellow?MERCUTIOFTLN 1480Come, come, thou art as hot a jack in thyFTLN 1481mood as any in Italy, and as soon moved to beFTLN 1482moody, and as soon moody to be moved.BENVOLIOFTLN 148315And what to?MERCUTIOFTLN 1484Nay, an there were two such, we shouldFTLN 1485have none shortly, for one would kill the other.FTLN 1486Thou—why, thou wilt quarrel with a man thatFTLN 1487hath a hair more or a hair less in his beard thanFTLN 148820thou hast. Thou wilt quarrel with a man for crackingFTLN 1489nuts, having no other reason but because thouFTLN 1490hast hazel eyes. What eye but such an eye would spyFTLN 1491out such a quarrel? Thy head is as full of quarrels as

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FTLN 1492an egg is full of meat, and yet thy head hath beenFTLN 149325beaten as addle as an egg for quarreling. Thou hastFTLN 1494quarreled with a man for coughing in the streetFTLN 1495because he hath wakened thy dog that hath lainFTLN 1496asleep in the sun. Didst thou not fall out with a tailorFTLN 1497for wearing his new doublet before Easter? WithFTLN 149830another, for tying his new shoes with old ribbon?FTLN 1499And yet thou wilt tutor me from quarreling?BENVOLIOFTLN 1500An I were so apt to quarrel as thou art, anyFTLN 1501man should buy the fee simple of my life for anFTLN 1502hour and a quarter.MERCUTIOFTLN 150335The fee simple? O simple!

Enter Tybalt, Petruchio, and others.

BENVOLIOFTLN 1504By my head, here comes the Capulets.MERCUTIOFTLN 1505By my heel, I care not.TYBALT, to his companionsFTLN 1506Follow me close, for I will speak to them.—FTLN 1507Gentlemen, good e’en. A word with one of you.MERCUTIOFTLN 150840And but one word with one of us? Couple itFTLN 1509with something. Make it a word and a blow.TYBALTFTLN 1510You shall find me apt enough to that, sir, anFTLN 1511you will give me occasion.MERCUTIOFTLN 1512Could you not take some occasion withoutFTLN 151345giving?TYBALTFTLN 1514Mercutio, thou consortest with Romeo.MERCUTIOFTLN 1515Consort? What, dost thou make us minstrels?FTLN 1516An thou make minstrels of us, look to hearFTLN 1517nothing but discords. Here’s my fiddlestick; here’sFTLN 151850that shall make you dance. Zounds, consort!BENVOLIOFTLN 1519We talk here in the public haunt of men.FTLN 1520Either withdraw unto some private place,FTLN 1521Or reason coldly of your grievances,FTLN 1522Or else depart. Here all eyes gaze on us.

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MERCUTIOFTLN 152355Men’s eyes were made to look, and let them gaze.FTLN 1524I will not budge for no man’s pleasure, I.

Enter Romeo.

TYBALTFTLN 1525Well, peace be with you, sir. Here comes my man.MERCUTIOFTLN 1526But I’ll be hanged, sir, if he wear your livery.FTLN 1527Marry, go before to field, he’ll be your follower.FTLN 152860Your Worship in that sense may call him “man.”TYBALTFTLN 1529Romeo, the love I bear thee can affordFTLN 1530No better term than this: thou art a villain.ROMEOFTLN 1531Tybalt, the reason that I have to love theeFTLN 1532Doth much excuse the appertaining rageFTLN 153365To such a greeting. Villain am I none.FTLN 1534Therefore farewell. I see thou knowest me not.TYBALTFTLN 1535Boy, this shall not excuse the injuriesFTLN 1536That thou hast done me. Therefore turn and draw.ROMEOFTLN 1537I do protest I never injured theeFTLN 153870But love thee better than thou canst deviseFTLN 1539Till thou shalt know the reason of my love.FTLN 1540And so, good Capulet, which name I tenderFTLN 1541As dearly as mine own, be satisfied.MERCUTIOFTLN 1542O calm, dishonorable, vile submission!FTLN 154375Alla stoccato carries it away.He draws.FTLN 1544Tybalt, you ratcatcher, will you walk?TYBALTFTLN 1545What wouldst thou have with me?MERCUTIOFTLN 1546Good king of cats, nothing but one of yourFTLN 1547nine lives, that I mean to make bold withal, and, asFTLN 154880you shall use me hereafter, dry-beat the rest of the

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FTLN 1549eight. Will you pluck your sword out of his pilcherFTLN 1550by the ears? Make haste, lest mine be about yourFTLN 1551ears ere it be out.TYBALTFTLN 1552I am for you.He draws.ROMEOFTLN 155385Gentle Mercutio, put thy rapier up.MERCUTIOFTLN 1554Come, sir, your passado.They fight.ROMEOFTLN 1555Draw, Benvolio, beat down their weapons.Romeo draws.FTLN 1556Gentlemen, for shame forbear this outrage!FTLN 1557Tybalt! Mercutio! The Prince expressly hathFTLN 155890Forbid this bandying in Verona streets.FTLN 1559Hold, Tybalt! Good Mercutio!Romeo attempts to beat down their rapiers.Tybalt stabs Mercutio.PETRUCHIOFTLN 1560Away, Tybalt!Tybalt, Petruchio, and their followers exit.MERCUTIOFTLN 1561I am hurt.FTLN 1562A plague o’ both houses! I am sped.FTLN 156395Is he gone and hath nothing?BENVOLIOFTLN 1564What, art thou hurt?MERCUTIOFTLN 1565Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch. Marry, ’tis enough.FTLN 1566Where is my page?—Go, villain, fetch a surgeon.Page exits.ROMEOFTLN 1567Courage, man, the hurt cannot be much.MERCUTIOFTLN 1568100No, ’tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide asFTLN 1569a church door, but ’tis enough. ’Twill serve. Ask forFTLN 1570me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man. IFTLN 1571am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o’FTLN 1572both your houses! Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, aFTLN 1573105cat, to scratch a man to death! A braggart, a rogue, aFTLN 1574villain that fights by the book of arithmetic! Why theFTLN 1575devil came you between us? I was hurt under yourFTLN 1576arm.

CITIZENFTLN 1612Which way ran he that killed Mercutio?FTLN 1613145Tybalt, that murderer, which way ran he?BENVOLIOFTLN 1614There lies that Tybalt.CITIZEN, to TybaltFTLN 1615Up, sir, go with me.FTLN 1616I charge thee in the Prince’s name, obey.

FTLN 1625For blood of ours, shed blood of Montague.FTLN 1626O cousin, cousin!PRINCEFTLN 1627Benvolio, who began this bloody fray?BENVOLIOFTLN 1628160Tybalt, here slain, whom Romeo’s hand did slay—FTLN 1629Romeo, that spoke him fair, bid him bethinkFTLN 1630How nice the quarrel was, and urged withalFTLN 1631Your high displeasure. All this utterèdFTLN 1632With gentle breath, calm look, knees humbly bowedFTLN 1633165Could not take truce with the unruly spleenFTLN 1634Of Tybalt, deaf to peace, but that he tiltsFTLN 1635With piercing steel at bold Mercutio’s breast,FTLN 1636Who, all as hot, turns deadly point to pointFTLN 1637And, with a martial scorn, with one hand beatsFTLN 1638170Cold death aside and with the other sendsFTLN 1639It back to Tybalt, whose dexterityFTLN 1640Retorts it. Romeo he cries aloudFTLN 1641“Hold, friends! Friends, part!” and swifter than hisFTLN 1642tongueFTLN 1643175His agile arm beats down their fatal points,FTLN 1644And ’twixt them rushes; underneath whose armFTLN 1645An envious thrust from Tybalt hit the lifeFTLN 1646Of stout Mercutio, and then Tybalt fled.FTLN 1647But by and by comes back to Romeo,FTLN 1648180Who had but newly entertained revenge,FTLN 1649And to ’t they go like lightning, for ere IFTLN 1650Could draw to part them was stout Tybalt slain,FTLN 1651And, as he fell, did Romeo turn and fly.FTLN 1652This is the truth, or let Benvolio die.LADY CAPULETFTLN 1653185He is a kinsman to the Montague.FTLN 1654Affection makes him false; he speaks not true.FTLN 1655Some twenty of them fought in this black strife,FTLN 1656And all those twenty could but kill one life.FTLN 1657I beg for justice, which thou, prince, must give.FTLN 1658190Romeo slew Tybalt; Romeo must not live.

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PRINCEFTLN 1659Romeo slew him; he slew Mercutio.FTLN 1660Who now the price of his dear blood doth owe?MONTAGUEFTLN 1661Not Romeo, Prince; he was Mercutio’s friend.FTLN 1662His fault concludes but what the law should end,FTLN 1663195The life of Tybalt.PRINCEFTLN 1664And for that offenseFTLN 1665Immediately we do exile him hence.FTLN 1666I have an interest in your hearts’ proceeding:FTLN 1667My blood for your rude brawls doth lie a-bleeding.FTLN 1668200But I’ll amerce you with so strong a fineFTLN 1669That you shall all repent the loss of mine.FTLN 1670I will be deaf to pleading and excuses.FTLN 1671Nor tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses.FTLN 1672Therefore use none. Let Romeo hence in haste,FTLN 1673205Else, when he is found, that hour is his last.FTLN 1674Bear hence this body and attend our will.FTLN 1675Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.They exit, the Capulet menbearing off Tybalt’s body.

Scene2

Enter Juliet alone.

JULIETFTLN 1676Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds,FTLN 1677Towards Phoebus’ lodging. Such a wagonerFTLN 1678As Phaëton would whip you to the westFTLN 1679And bring in cloudy night immediately.FTLN 16805Spread thy close curtain, love-performing night,FTLN 1681That runaways’ eyes may wink, and RomeoFTLN 1682Leap to these arms, untalked of and unseen.FTLN 1683Lovers can see to do their amorous ritesFTLN 1684By their own beauties, or, if love be blind,

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FTLN 168510It best agrees with night. Come, civil night,FTLN 1686Thou sober-suited matron all in black,FTLN 1687And learn me how to lose a winning matchFTLN 1688Played for a pair of stainless maidenhoods.FTLN 1689Hood my unmanned blood, bating in my cheeks,FTLN 169015With thy black mantle till strange love grow bold,FTLN 1691Think true love acted simple modesty.FTLN 1692Come, night. Come, Romeo. Come, thou day inFTLN 1693night,FTLN 1694For thou wilt lie upon the wings of nightFTLN 169520Whiter than new snow upon a raven’s back.FTLN 1696Come, gentle night; come, loving black-browedFTLN 1697night,FTLN 1698Give me my Romeo, and when I shall die,FTLN 1699Take him and cut him out in little stars,FTLN 170025And he will make the face of heaven so fineFTLN 1701That all the world will be in love with nightFTLN 1702And pay no worship to the garish sun.FTLN 1703O, I have bought the mansion of a loveFTLN 1704But not possessed it, and, though I am sold,FTLN 170530Not yet enjoyed. So tedious is this dayFTLN 1706As is the night before some festivalFTLN 1707To an impatient child that hath new robesFTLN 1708And may not wear them.

FTLN 1746Is Romeo slaughtered and is Tybalt dead?FTLN 1747My dearest cousin, and my dearer lord?FTLN 1748Then, dreadful trumpet, sound the general doom,FTLN 1749For who is living if those two are gone?NURSEFTLN 175075Tybalt is gone and Romeo banishèd.FTLN 1751Romeo that killed him—he is banishèd.JULIETFTLN 1752O God, did Romeo’s hand shed Tybalt’s blood?NURSEFTLN 1753It did, it did, alas the day, it did.JULIETFTLN 1754O serpent heart hid with a flow’ring face!FTLN 175580Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?FTLN 1756Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical!FTLN 1757Dove-feathered raven, wolvish-ravening lamb!FTLN 1758Despisèd substance of divinest show!FTLN 1759Just opposite to what thou justly seem’st,FTLN 176085A damnèd saint, an honorable villain.FTLN 1761O nature, what hadst thou to do in hellFTLN 1762When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiendFTLN 1763In mortal paradise of such sweet flesh?FTLN 1764Was ever book containing such vile matterFTLN 176590So fairly bound? O, that deceit should dwellFTLN 1766In such a gorgeous palace!NURSEFTLN 1767There’s no trust,FTLN 1768No faith, no honesty in men. All perjured,FTLN 1769All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.FTLN 177095Ah, where’s my man? Give me some aqua vitae.FTLN 1771These griefs, these woes, these sorrows make meFTLN 1772old.FTLN 1773Shame come to Romeo!JULIETFTLN 1774Blistered be thy tongueFTLN 1775100For such a wish! He was not born to shame.FTLN 1776Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit,FTLN 1777For ’tis a throne where honor may be crowned

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FTLN 1778Sole monarch of the universal Earth.FTLN 1779O, what a beast was I to chide at him!NURSEFTLN 1780105Will you speak well of him that killed your cousin?JULIETFTLN 1781Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband?FTLN 1782Ah, poor my lord, what tongue shall smooth thyFTLN 1783nameFTLN 1784When I, thy three-hours wife, have mangled it?FTLN 1785110But wherefore, villain, didst thou kill my cousin?FTLN 1786That villain cousin would have killed my husband.FTLN 1787Back, foolish tears, back to your native spring;FTLN 1788Your tributary drops belong to woe,FTLN 1789Which you, mistaking, offer up to joy.FTLN 1790115My husband lives, that Tybalt would have slain,FTLN 1791And Tybalt’s dead, that would have slain myFTLN 1792husband.FTLN 1793All this is comfort. Wherefore weep I then?FTLN 1794Some word there was, worser than Tybalt’s death,FTLN 1795120That murdered me. I would forget it fain,FTLN 1796But, O, it presses to my memoryFTLN 1797Like damnèd guilty deeds to sinners’ minds:FTLN 1798“Tybalt is dead and Romeo banishèd.”FTLN 1799That “banishèd,” that one word “banishèd,”FTLN 1800125Hath slain ten thousand Tybalts. Tybalt’s deathFTLN 1801Was woe enough if it had ended there;FTLN 1802Or, if sour woe delights in fellowshipFTLN 1803And needly will be ranked with other griefs,FTLN 1804Why followed not, when she said “Tybalt’s dead,”FTLN 1805130“Thy father” or “thy mother,” nay, or both,FTLN 1806Which modern lamentation might have moved?FTLN 1807But with a rearward following Tybalt’s death,FTLN 1808“Romeo is banishèd.” To speak that wordFTLN 1809Is father, mother, Tybalt, Romeo, Juliet,FTLN 1810135All slain, all dead. “Romeo is banishèd.”FTLN 1811There is no end, no limit, measure, bound,

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FTLN 1812In that word’s death. No words can that woe sound.FTLN 1813Where is my father and my mother, nurse?NURSEFTLN 1814Weeping and wailing over Tybalt’s corse.FTLN 1815140Will you go to them? I will bring you thither.JULIETFTLN 1816Wash they his wounds with tears? Mine shall beFTLN 1817spent,FTLN 1818When theirs are dry, for Romeo’s banishment.—FTLN 1819Take up those cords.The Nurse picks up the rope ladder.FTLN 1820145Poor ropes, you are beguiled,FTLN 1821Both you and I, for Romeo is exiled.FTLN 1822He made you for a highway to my bed,FTLN 1823But I, a maid, die maiden-widowèd.FTLN 1824Come, cords—come, nurse. I’ll to my wedding bed,FTLN 1825150And death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead!NURSEFTLN 1826Hie to your chamber. I’ll find RomeoFTLN 1827To comfort you. I wot well where he is.FTLN 1828Hark you, your Romeo will be here at night.FTLN 1829I’ll to him. He is hid at Lawrence’ cell.JULIETFTLN 1830155O, find him!Giving the Nurse a ring.FTLN 1831Give this ring to my true knightFTLN 1832And bid him come to take his last farewell.They exit.

ROMEOFTLN 1836Father, what news? What is the Prince’s doom?FTLN 18375What sorrow craves acquaintance at my handFTLN 1838That I yet know not?FRIAR LAWRENCEFTLN 1839Too familiarFTLN 1840Is my dear son with such sour company.FTLN 1841I bring thee tidings of the Prince’s doom.ROMEOFTLN 184210What less than doomsday is the Prince’s doom?FRIAR LAWRENCEFTLN 1843A gentler judgment vanished from his lips:FTLN 1844Not body’s death, but body’s banishment.ROMEOFTLN 1845Ha, banishment? Be merciful, say “death,”FTLN 1846For exile hath more terror in his look,FTLN 184715Much more than death. Do not say “banishment.”FRIAR LAWRENCEFTLN 1848Here from Verona art thou banishèd.FTLN 1849Be patient, for the world is broad and wide.ROMEOFTLN 1850There is no world without Verona wallsFTLN 1851But purgatory, torture, hell itself.FTLN 185220Hence “banishèd” is “banished from the world,”FTLN 1853And world’s exile is death. Then “banishèd”FTLN 1854Is death mistermed. Calling death “banishèd,”FTLN 1855Thou cutt’st my head off with a golden axFTLN 1856And smilest upon the stroke that murders me.FRIAR LAWRENCEFTLN 185725O deadly sin, O rude unthankfulness!FTLN 1858Thy fault our law calls death, but the kind prince,FTLN 1859Taking thy part, hath rushed aside the lawFTLN 1860And turned that black word “death” toFTLN 1861“banishment.”FTLN 186230This is dear mercy, and thou seest it not.

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ROMEOFTLN 1863’Tis torture and not mercy. Heaven is hereFTLN 1864Where Juliet lives, and every cat and dogFTLN 1865And little mouse, every unworthy thing,FTLN 1866Live here in heaven and may look on her,FTLN 186735But Romeo may not. More validity,FTLN 1868More honorable state, more courtship livesFTLN 1869In carrion flies than Romeo. They may seizeFTLN 1870On the white wonder of dear Juliet’s handFTLN 1871And steal immortal blessing from her lips,FTLN 187240Who even in pure and vestal modestyFTLN 1873Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin;FTLN 1874But Romeo may not; he is banishèd.FTLN 1875Flies may do this, but I from this must fly.FTLN 1876They are free men, but I am banishèd.FTLN 187745And sayest thou yet that exile is not death?FTLN 1878Hadst thou no poison mixed, no sharp-groundFTLN 1879knife,FTLN 1880No sudden mean of death, though ne’er so mean,FTLN 1881But “banishèd” to kill me? “Banishèd”?FTLN 188250O friar, the damnèd use that word in hell.FTLN 1883Howling attends it. How hast thou the heart,FTLN 1884Being a divine, a ghostly confessor,FTLN 1885A sin absolver, and my friend professed,FTLN 1886To mangle me with that word “banishèd”?FRIAR LAWRENCEFTLN 188755Thou fond mad man, hear me a little speak.ROMEOFTLN 1888O, thou wilt speak again of banishment.FRIAR LAWRENCEFTLN 1889I’ll give thee armor to keep off that word,FTLN 1890Adversity’s sweet milk, philosophy,FTLN 1891To comfort thee, though thou art banishèd.ROMEOFTLN 189260Yet “banishèd”? Hang up philosophy.FTLN 1893Unless philosophy can make a Juliet,

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FTLN 1894Displant a town, reverse a prince’s doom,FTLN 1895It helps not, it prevails not. Talk no more.FRIAR LAWRENCEFTLN 1896O, then I see that madmen have no ears.ROMEOFTLN 189765How should they when that wise men have no eyes?FRIAR LAWRENCEFTLN 1898Let me dispute with thee of thy estate.ROMEOFTLN 1899Thou canst not speak of that thou dost not feel.FTLN 1900Wert thou as young as I, Juliet thy love,FTLN 1901An hour but married, Tybalt murderèd,FTLN 190270Doting like me, and like me banishèd,FTLN 1903Then mightst thou speak, then mightst thou tear thyFTLN 1904hairFTLN 1905And fall upon the ground as I do now,Romeo throws himself down.FTLN 1906Taking the measure of an unmade grave.Knock within.FRIAR LAWRENCEFTLN 190775Arise. One knocks. Good Romeo, hide thyself.ROMEOFTLN 1908Not I, unless the breath of heartsick groans,FTLN 1909Mistlike, enfold me from the search of eyes.Knock.FRIAR LAWRENCEFTLN 1910Hark, how they knock!—Who’s there?—Romeo,FTLN 1911arise.FTLN 191280Thou wilt be taken.—Stay awhile.—Stand up.Knock.FTLN 1913Run to my study.—By and by.—God’s will,FTLN 1914What simpleness is this?—I come, I come.Knock.FTLN 1915Who knocks so hard? Whence come you? What’sFTLN 1916your will?

NURSEFTLN 1920O holy friar, O, tell me, holy friar,FTLN 1921Where’s my lady’s lord? Where’s Romeo?FRIAR LAWRENCEFTLN 192290There on the ground, with his own tears madeFTLN 1923drunk.NURSEFTLN 1924O, he is even in my mistress’ case,FTLN 1925Just in her case. O woeful sympathy!FTLN 1926Piteous predicament! Even so lies she,FTLN 192795Blubb’ring and weeping, weeping and blubb’ring.—FTLN 1928Stand up, stand up. Stand an you be a man.FTLN 1929For Juliet’s sake, for her sake, rise and stand.FTLN 1930Why should you fall into so deep an O?ROMEOFTLN 1931Nurse.NURSEFTLN 1932100Ah sir, ah sir, death’s the end of all.ROMEO, rising upFTLN 1933Spakest thou of Juliet? How is it with her?FTLN 1934Doth not she think me an old murderer,FTLN 1935Now I have stained the childhood of our joyFTLN 1936With blood removed but little from her own?FTLN 1937105Where is she? And how doth she? And what saysFTLN 1938My concealed lady to our canceled love?NURSEFTLN 1939O, she says nothing, sir, but weeps and weeps,FTLN 1940And now falls on her bed, and then starts up,FTLN 1941And “Tybalt” calls, and then on Romeo cries,FTLN 1942110And then down falls again.

FTLN 1979There art thou happy. Tybalt would kill thee,FTLN 1980But thou slewest Tybalt: there art thou happy.FTLN 1981The law that threatened death becomes thy friendFTLN 1982150And turns it to exile: there art thou happy.FTLN 1983A pack of blessings light upon thy back;FTLN 1984Happiness courts thee in her best array;FTLN 1985But, like a misbehaved and sullen wench,FTLN 1986Thou pouts upon thy fortune and thy love.FTLN 1987155Take heed, take heed, for such die miserable.FTLN 1988Go, get thee to thy love, as was decreed.FTLN 1989Ascend her chamber. Hence and comfort her.FTLN 1990But look thou stay not till the watch be set,FTLN 1991For then thou canst not pass to Mantua,FTLN 1992160Where thou shalt live till we can find a timeFTLN 1993To blaze your marriage, reconcile your friends,FTLN 1994Beg pardon of the Prince, and call thee backFTLN 1995With twenty hundred thousand times more joyFTLN 1996Than thou went’st forth in lamentation.—FTLN 1997165Go before, nurse. Commend me to thy lady,FTLN 1998And bid her hasten all the house to bed,FTLN 1999Which heavy sorrow makes them apt unto.FTLN 2000Romeo is coming.NURSEFTLN 2001O Lord, I could have stayed here all the nightFTLN 2002170To hear good counsel. O, what learning is!—FTLN 2003My lord, I’ll tell my lady you will come.ROMEOFTLN 2004Do so, and bid my sweet prepare to chide.NURSEFTLN 2005Here, sir, a ring she bid me give you, sir.Nurse gives Romeo a ring.FTLN 2006Hie you, make haste, for it grows very late.She exits.ROMEOFTLN 2007175How well my comfort is revived by this!

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FRIAR LAWRENCEFTLN 2008Go hence, good night—and here stands all yourFTLN 2009state:FTLN 2010Either be gone before the watch be setFTLN 2011Or by the break of day disguised from hence.FTLN 2012180Sojourn in Mantua. I’ll find out your man,FTLN 2013And he shall signify from time to timeFTLN 2014Every good hap to you that chances here.FTLN 2015Give me thy hand. ’Tis late. Farewell. Good night.ROMEOFTLN 2016But that a joy past joy calls out on me,FTLN 2017185It were a grief so brief to part with thee.FTLN 2018Farewell.They exit.

Scene4

Enter old Capulet, his Wife, and Paris.

CAPULETFTLN 2019Things have fallen out, sir, so unluckilyFTLN 2020That we have had no time to move our daughter.FTLN 2021Look you, she loved her kinsman Tybalt dearly,FTLN 2022And so did I. Well, we were born to die.FTLN 20235’Tis very late. She’ll not come down tonight.FTLN 2024I promise you, but for your company,FTLN 2025I would have been abed an hour ago.PARISFTLN 2026These times of woe afford no times to woo.—FTLN 2027Madam, good night. Commend me to yourFTLN 202810daughter.LADY CAPULETFTLN 2029I will, and know her mind early tomorrow.FTLN 2030Tonight she’s mewed up to her heaviness.CAPULETFTLN 2031Sir Paris, I will make a desperate tenderFTLN 2032Of my child’s love. I think she will be ruled

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FTLN 203315In all respects by me. Nay, more, I doubt it not.—FTLN 2034Wife, go you to her ere you go to bed.FTLN 2035Acquaint her here of my son Paris’ love,FTLN 2036And bid her—mark you me?—on WednesdayFTLN 2037next—FTLN 203820But soft, what day is this?PARISFTLN 2039Monday, my lord.CAPULETFTLN 2040Monday, ha ha! Well, Wednesday is too soon.FTLN 2041O’ Thursday let it be.—O’ Thursday, tell her,FTLN 2042She shall be married to this noble earl.—FTLN 204325Will you be ready? Do you like this haste?FTLN 2044We’ll keep no great ado: a friend or two.FTLN 2045For hark you, Tybalt being slain so late,FTLN 2046It may be thought we held him carelessly,FTLN 2047Being our kinsman, if we revel much.FTLN 204830Therefore we’ll have some half a dozen friends,FTLN 2049And there an end. But what say you to Thursday?PARISFTLN 2050My lord, I would that Thursday were tomorrow.CAPULETFTLN 2051Well, get you gone. O’ Thursday be it, then.FTLN 2052To Lady Capulet.Go you to Juliet ere you go to bed.FTLN 205335Prepare her, wife, against this wedding day.—FTLN 2054Farewell, my lord.—Light to my chamber, ho!—FTLN 2055Afore me, it is so very late that weFTLN 2056May call it early by and by.—Good night.They exit.

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Enter Romeo and Juliet aloft.

JULIETFTLN 2057Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet near day.FTLN 2058It was the nightingale, and not the lark,FTLN 2059That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear.

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FTLN 2060Nightly she sings on yond pomegranate tree.FTLN 20615Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.ROMEOFTLN 2062It was the lark, the herald of the morn,FTLN 2063No nightingale. Look, love, what envious streaksFTLN 2064Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east.FTLN 2065Night’s candles are burnt out, and jocund dayFTLN 206610Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops.FTLN 2067I must be gone and live, or stay and die.JULIETFTLN 2068Yond light is not daylight, I know it, I.FTLN 2069It is some meteor that the sun exhaledFTLN 2070To be to thee this night a torchbearerFTLN 207115And light thee on thy way to Mantua.FTLN 2072Therefore stay yet. Thou need’st not to be gone.ROMEOFTLN 2073Let me be ta’en; let me be put to death.FTLN 2074I am content, so thou wilt have it so.FTLN 2075I’ll say yon gray is not the morning’s eye;FTLN 207620’Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia’s brow.FTLN 2077Nor that is not the lark whose notes do beatFTLN 2078The vaulty heaven so high above our heads.FTLN 2079I have more care to stay than will to go.FTLN 2080Come death and welcome. Juliet wills it so.FTLN 208125How is ’t, my soul? Let’s talk. It is not day.JULIETFTLN 2082It is, it is. Hie hence, begone, away!FTLN 2083It is the lark that sings so out of tune,FTLN 2084Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps.FTLN 2085Some say the lark makes sweet division.FTLN 208630This doth not so, for she divideth us.FTLN 2087Some say the lark and loathèd toad changed eyes.FTLN 2088O, now I would they had changed voices too,FTLN 2089Since arm from arm that voice doth us affray,FTLN 2090Hunting thee hence with hunt’s-up to the day.FTLN 209135O, now begone. More light and light it grows.

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ROMEOFTLN 2092More light and light, more dark and dark our woes.

Enter Nurse.

NURSEFTLN 2093Madam.JULIETFTLN 2094Nurse?NURSEFTLN 2095Your lady mother is coming to your chamber.FTLN 209640The day is broke; be wary; look about.She exits.JULIETFTLN 2097Then, window, let day in, and let life out.ROMEOFTLN 2098Farewell, farewell. One kiss and I’ll descend.They kiss, and Romeo descends.JULIETFTLN 2099Art thou gone so? Love, lord, ay husband, friend!FTLN 2100I must hear from thee every day in the hour,FTLN 210145For in a minute there are many days.FTLN 2102O, by this count I shall be much in yearsFTLN 2103Ere I again behold my Romeo.ROMEOFTLN 2104Farewell.FTLN 2105I will omit no opportunityFTLN 210650That may convey my greetings, love, to thee.JULIETFTLN 2107O, think’st thou we shall ever meet again?ROMEOFTLN 2108I doubt it not; and all these woes shall serveFTLN 2109For sweet discourses in our times to come.JULIETFTLN 2110O God, I have an ill-divining soul!FTLN 211155Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low,FTLN 2112As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.FTLN 2113Either my eyesight fails or thou lookest pale.ROMEOFTLN 2114And trust me, love, in my eye so do you.FTLN 2115Dry sorrow drinks our blood. Adieu, adieu.He exits.

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JULIETFTLN 211660O Fortune, Fortune, all men call thee fickle.FTLN 2117If thou art fickle, what dost thou with himFTLN 2118That is renowned for faith? Be fickle, Fortune,FTLN 2119For then I hope thou wilt not keep him long,FTLN 2120But send him back.

Enter Lady Capulet.

LADY CAPULETFTLN 212165Ho, daughter, are you up?JULIETFTLN 2122Who is ’t that calls? It is my lady mother.FTLN 2123Is she not down so late or up so early?FTLN 2124What unaccustomed cause procures her hither?Juliet descends.LADY CAPULETFTLN 2125Why, how now, Juliet?JULIETFTLN 212670Madam, I am not well.LADY CAPULETFTLN 2127Evermore weeping for your cousin’s death?FTLN 2128What, wilt thou wash him from his grave with tears?FTLN 2129An if thou couldst, thou couldst not make him live.FTLN 2130Therefore have done. Some grief shows much ofFTLN 213175love,FTLN 2132But much of grief shows still some want of wit.JULIETFTLN 2133Yet let me weep for such a feeling loss.LADY CAPULETFTLN 2134So shall you feel the loss, but not the friendFTLN 2135Which you weep for.JULIETFTLN 213680Feeling so the loss,FTLN 2137I cannot choose but ever weep the friend.LADY CAPULETFTLN 2138Well, girl, thou weep’st not so much for his deathFTLN 2139As that the villain lives which slaughtered him.JULIETFTLN 2140What villain, madam?

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LADY CAPULETFTLN 214185That same villain, Romeo.JULIET, asideFTLN 2142Villain and he be many miles asunder.—FTLN 2143God pardon him. I do with all my heart,FTLN 2144And yet no man like he doth grieve my heart.LADY CAPULETFTLN 2145That is because the traitor murderer lives.JULIETFTLN 214690Ay, madam, from the reach of these my hands.FTLN 2147Would none but I might venge my cousin’s death!LADY CAPULETFTLN 2148We will have vengeance for it, fear thou not.FTLN 2149Then weep no more. I’ll send to one in Mantua,FTLN 2150Where that same banished runagate doth live,FTLN 215195Shall give him such an unaccustomed dramFTLN 2152That he shall soon keep Tybalt company.FTLN 2153And then, I hope, thou wilt be satisfied.JULIETFTLN 2154Indeed, I never shall be satisfiedFTLN 2155With Romeo till I behold him—dead—FTLN 2156100Is my poor heart, so for a kinsman vexed.FTLN 2157Madam, if you could find out but a manFTLN 2158To bear a poison, I would temper it,FTLN 2159That Romeo should, upon receipt thereof,FTLN 2160Soon sleep in quiet. O, how my heart abhorsFTLN 2161105To hear him named and cannot come to himFTLN 2162To wreak the love I bore my cousinFTLN 2163Upon his body that hath slaughtered him.LADY CAPULETFTLN 2164Find thou the means, and I’ll find such a man.FTLN 2165But now I’ll tell thee joyful tidings, girl.JULIETFTLN 2166110And joy comes well in such a needy time.FTLN 2167What are they, beseech your Ladyship?LADY CAPULETFTLN 2168Well, well, thou hast a careful father, child,

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FTLN 2169One who, to put thee from thy heaviness,FTLN 2170Hath sorted out a sudden day of joyFTLN 2171115That thou expects not, nor I looked not for.JULIETFTLN 2172Madam, in happy time! What day is that?LADY CAPULETFTLN 2173Marry, my child, early next Thursday mornFTLN 2174The gallant, young, and noble gentleman,FTLN 2175The County Paris, at Saint Peter’s ChurchFTLN 2176120Shall happily make thee there a joyful bride.JULIETFTLN 2177Now, by Saint Peter’s Church, and Peter too,FTLN 2178He shall not make me there a joyful bride!FTLN 2179I wonder at this haste, that I must wedFTLN 2180Ere he that should be husband comes to woo.FTLN 2181125I pray you, tell my lord and father, madam,FTLN 2182I will not marry yet, and when I do I swearFTLN 2183It shall be Romeo, whom you know I hate,FTLN 2184Rather than Paris. These are news indeed!LADY CAPULETFTLN 2185Here comes your father. Tell him so yourself,FTLN 2186130And see how he will take it at your hands.

Enter Capulet and Nurse.

CAPULETFTLN 2187When the sun sets, the earth doth drizzle dew,FTLN 2188But for the sunset of my brother’s sonFTLN 2189It rains downright.FTLN 2190How now, a conduit, girl? What, still in tears?FTLN 2191135Evermore show’ring? In one little bodyFTLN 2192Thou counterfeits a bark, a sea, a wind.FTLN 2193For still thy eyes, which I may call the sea,FTLN 2194Do ebb and flow with tears; the bark thy body is,FTLN 2195Sailing in this salt flood; the winds thy sighs,FTLN 2196140Who, raging with thy tears and they with them,FTLN 2197Without a sudden calm, will overset

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FTLN 2198Thy tempest-tossèd body.—How now, wife?FTLN 2199Have you delivered to her our decree?LADY CAPULETFTLN 2200Ay, sir, but she will none, she gives you thanks.FTLN 2201145I would the fool were married to her grave.CAPULETFTLN 2202Soft, take me with you, take me with you, wife.FTLN 2203How, will she none? Doth she not give us thanks?FTLN 2204Is she not proud? Doth she not count her blessed,FTLN 2205Unworthy as she is, that we have wroughtFTLN 2206150So worthy a gentleman to be her bride?JULIETFTLN 2207Not proud you have, but thankful that you have.FTLN 2208Proud can I never be of what I hate,FTLN 2209But thankful even for hate that is meant love.CAPULETFTLN 2210How, how, how, how? Chopped logic? What is this?FTLN 2211155“Proud,” and “I thank you,” and “I thank you not,”FTLN 2212And yet “not proud”? Mistress minion you,FTLN 2213Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds,FTLN 2214But fettle your fine joints ’gainst Thursday nextFTLN 2215To go with Paris to Saint Peter’s Church,FTLN 2216160Or I will drag thee on a hurdle thither.FTLN 2217Out, you green-sickness carrion! Out, you baggage!FTLN 2218You tallow face!LADY CAPULETFTLN 2219Fie, fie, what, are you mad?JULIET, kneelingFTLN 2220Good father, I beseech you on my knees,FTLN 2221165Hear me with patience but to speak a word.CAPULETFTLN 2222Hang thee, young baggage, disobedient wretch!FTLN 2223I tell thee what: get thee to church o’ Thursday,FTLN 2224Or never after look me in the face.FTLN 2225Speak not; reply not; do not answer me.FTLN 2226170My fingers itch.—Wife, we scarce thought usFTLN 2227blessed

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FTLN 2228That God had lent us but this only child,FTLN 2229But now I see this one is one too much,FTLN 2230And that we have a curse in having her.FTLN 2231175Out on her, hilding.NURSEFTLN 2232God in heaven bless her!FTLN 2233You are to blame, my lord, to rate her so.CAPULETFTLN 2234And why, my Lady Wisdom? Hold your tongue.FTLN 2235Good Prudence, smatter with your gossips, go.NURSEFTLN 2236180I speak no treason.CAPULETFTLN 2237O, God ’i’ g’ eden!NURSEFTLN 2238May not one speak?CAPULETFTLN 2239Peace, you mumbling fool!FTLN 2240Utter your gravity o’er a gossip’s bowl,FTLN 2241185For here we need it not.LADY CAPULETFTLN 2242You are too hot.CAPULETFTLN 2243God’s bread, it makes me mad.FTLN 2244Day, night, hour, tide, time, work, play,FTLN 2245Alone, in company, still my care hath beenFTLN 2246190To have her matched. And having now providedFTLN 2247A gentleman of noble parentage,FTLN 2248Of fair demesnes, youthful, and nobly ligned,FTLN 2249Stuffed, as they say, with honorable parts,FTLN 2250Proportioned as one’s thought would wish a man—FTLN 2251195And then to have a wretched puling fool,FTLN 2252A whining mammet, in her fortune’s tender,FTLN 2253To answer “I’ll not wed. I cannot love.FTLN 2254I am too young. I pray you, pardon me.”FTLN 2255But, an you will not wed, I’ll pardon you!FTLN 2256200Graze where you will, you shall not house with me.FTLN 2257Look to ’t; think on ’t. I do not use to jest.FTLN 2258Thursday is near. Lay hand on heart; advise.FTLN 2259An you be mine, I’ll give you to my friend.

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FTLN 2260An you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets,FTLN 2261205For, by my soul, I’ll ne’er acknowledge thee,FTLN 2262Nor what is mine shall never do thee good.FTLN 2263Trust to ’t; bethink you. I’ll not be forsworn.He exits.JULIETFTLN 2264Is there no pity sitting in the cloudsFTLN 2265That sees into the bottom of my grief?—FTLN 2266210O sweet my mother, cast me not away.FTLN 2267Delay this marriage for a month, a week,FTLN 2268Or, if you do not, make the bridal bedFTLN 2269In that dim monument where Tybalt lies.LADY CAPULETFTLN 2270Talk not to me, for I’ll not speak a word.FTLN 2271215Do as thou wilt, for I have done with thee.She exits.JULIET, risingFTLN 2272O God! O nurse, how shall this be prevented?FTLN 2273My husband is on Earth, my faith in heaven.FTLN 2274How shall that faith return again to EarthFTLN 2275Unless that husband send it me from heavenFTLN 2276220By leaving Earth? Comfort me; counsel me.—FTLN 2277Alack, alack, that heaven should practice stratagemsFTLN 2278Upon so soft a subject as myself.—FTLN 2279What sayst thou? Hast thou not a word of joy?FTLN 2280Some comfort, nurse.NURSEFTLN 2281225Faith, here it is.FTLN 2282Romeo is banished, and all the world to nothingFTLN 2283That he dares ne’er come back to challenge you,FTLN 2284Or, if he do, it needs must be by stealth.FTLN 2285Then, since the case so stands as now it doth,FTLN 2286230I think it best you married with the County.FTLN 2287O, he’s a lovely gentleman!FTLN 2288Romeo’s a dishclout to him. An eagle, madam,FTLN 2289Hath not so green, so quick, so fair an eyeFTLN 2290As Paris hath. Beshrew my very heart,

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FTLN 2291235I think you are happy in this second match,FTLN 2292For it excels your first, or, if it did not,FTLN 2293Your first is dead, or ’twere as good he wereFTLN 2294As living here and you no use of him.JULIETFTLN 2295Speak’st thou from thy heart?NURSEFTLN 2296240And from my soul too, else beshrew them both.JULIETFTLN 2297Amen.NURSEFTLN 2298What?JULIETFTLN 2299Well, thou hast comforted me marvelous much.FTLN 2300Go in and tell my lady I am gone,FTLN 2301245Having displeased my father, to Lawrence’ cellFTLN 2302To make confession and to be absolved.NURSEFTLN 2303Marry, I will; and this is wisely done.She exits.JULIETFTLN 2304Ancient damnation, O most wicked fiend!FTLN 2305Is it more sin to wish me thus forswornFTLN 2306250Or to dispraise my lord with that same tongueFTLN 2307Which she hath praised him with above compareFTLN 2308So many thousand times? Go, counselor.FTLN 2309Thou and my bosom henceforth shall be twain.FTLN 2310I’ll to the Friar to know his remedy.FTLN 2311255If all else fail, myself have power to die.She exits.

ACT4

Scene1

Enter Friar Lawrence and County Paris.

FRIAR LAWRENCEFTLN 2312On Thursday, sir? The time is very short.PARISFTLN 2313My father Capulet will have it so,FTLN 2314And I am nothing slow to slack his haste.FRIAR LAWRENCEFTLN 2315You say you do not know the lady’s mind?FTLN 23165Uneven is the course. I like it not.PARISFTLN 2317Immoderately she weeps for Tybalt’s death,FTLN 2318And therefore have I little talk of love,FTLN 2319For Venus smiles not in a house of tears.FTLN 2320Now, sir, her father counts it dangerousFTLN 232110That she do give her sorrow so much sway,FTLN 2322And in his wisdom hastes our marriageFTLN 2323To stop the inundation of her tears,FTLN 2324Which, too much minded by herself alone,FTLN 2325May be put from her by society.FTLN 232615Now do you know the reason of this haste.FRIAR LAWRENCE, asideFTLN 2327I would I knew not why it should be slowed.—FTLN 2328Look, sir, here comes the lady toward my cell.

Enter Juliet.

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PARISFTLN 2329Happily met, my lady and my wife.JULIETFTLN 2330That may be, sir, when I may be a wife.PARISFTLN 233120That “may be” must be, love, on Thursday next.JULIETFTLN 2332What must be shall be.FRIAR LAWRENCEFTLN 2333That’s a certain text.PARISFTLN 2334Come you to make confession to this father?JULIETFTLN 2335To answer that, I should confess to you.PARISFTLN 233625Do not deny to him that you love me.JULIETFTLN 2337I will confess to you that I love him.PARISFTLN 2338So will you, I am sure, that you love me.JULIETFTLN 2339If I do so, it will be of more priceFTLN 2340Being spoke behind your back than to your face.PARISFTLN 234130Poor soul, thy face is much abused with tears.JULIETFTLN 2342The tears have got small victory by that,FTLN 2343For it was bad enough before their spite.PARISFTLN 2344Thou wrong’st it more than tears with that report.JULIETFTLN 2345That is no slander, sir, which is a truth,FTLN 234635And what I spake, I spake it to my face.PARISFTLN 2347Thy face is mine, and thou hast slandered it.JULIETFTLN 2348It may be so, for it is not mine own.—

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FTLN 2349Are you at leisure, holy father, now,FTLN 2350Or shall I come to you at evening Mass?FRIAR LAWRENCEFTLN 235140My leisure serves me, pensive daughter, now.—FTLN 2352My lord, we must entreat the time alone.PARISFTLN 2353God shield I should disturb devotion!—FTLN 2354Juliet, on Thursday early will I rouse you.FTLN 2355Till then, adieu, and keep this holy kiss.He exits.JULIETFTLN 235645O, shut the door, and when thou hast done so,FTLN 2357Come weep with me, past hope, past care, past help.FRIAR LAWRENCEFTLN 2358O Juliet, I already know thy grief.FTLN 2359It strains me past the compass of my wits.FTLN 2360I hear thou must, and nothing may prorogue it,FTLN 236150On Thursday next be married to this County.JULIETFTLN 2362Tell me not, friar, that thou hearest of this,FTLN 2363Unless thou tell me how I may prevent it.FTLN 2364If in thy wisdom thou canst give no help,FTLN 2365Do thou but call my resolution wise,FTLN 236655And with this knife I’ll help it presently.She shows him her knife.FTLN 2367God joined my heart and Romeo’s, thou our hands;FTLN 2368And ere this hand, by thee to Romeo’s sealed,FTLN 2369Shall be the label to another deed,FTLN 2370Or my true heart with treacherous revoltFTLN 237160Turn to another, this shall slay them both.FTLN 2372Therefore out of thy long-experienced timeFTLN 2373Give me some present counsel, or, behold,FTLN 2374’Twixt my extremes and me this bloody knifeFTLN 2375Shall play the umpire, arbitrating thatFTLN 237665Which the commission of thy years and artFTLN 2377Could to no issue of true honor bring.FTLN 2378Be not so long to speak. I long to dieFTLN 2379If what thou speak’st speak not of remedy.

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FRIAR LAWRENCEFTLN 2380Hold, daughter, I do spy a kind of hope,FTLN 238170Which craves as desperate an executionFTLN 2382As that is desperate which we would prevent.FTLN 2383If, rather than to marry County Paris,FTLN 2384Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,FTLN 2385Then is it likely thou wilt undertakeFTLN 238675A thing like death to chide away this shame,FTLN 2387That cop’st with death himself to ’scape from it;FTLN 2388And if thou darest, I’ll give thee remedy.JULIETFTLN 2389O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris,FTLN 2390From off the battlements of any tower,FTLN 239180Or walk in thievish ways, or bid me lurkFTLN 2392Where serpents are. Chain me with roaring bears,FTLN 2393Or hide me nightly in a charnel house,FTLN 2394O’ercovered quite with dead men’s rattling bones,FTLN 2395With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls.FTLN 239685Or bid me go into a new-made graveFTLN 2397And hide me with a dead man in his shroudFTLN 2398(Things that to hear them told have made meFTLN 2399tremble),FTLN 2400And I will do it without fear or doubt,FTLN 240190To live an unstained wife to my sweet love.FRIAR LAWRENCEFTLN 2402Hold, then. Go home; be merry; give consentFTLN 2403To marry Paris. Wednesday is tomorrow.FTLN 2404Tomorrow night look that thou lie alone;FTLN 2405Let not the Nurse lie with thee in thy chamber.Holding out a vial.FTLN 240695Take thou this vial, being then in bed,FTLN 2407And this distilling liquor drink thou off;FTLN 2408When presently through all thy veins shall runFTLN 2409A cold and drowsy humor; for no pulseFTLN 2410Shall keep his native progress, but surcease.FTLN 2411100No warmth, no breath shall testify thou livest.

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FTLN 2412The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fadeFTLN 2413To paly ashes, thy eyes’ windows fallFTLN 2414Like death when he shuts up the day of life.FTLN 2415Each part, deprived of supple government,FTLN 2416105Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death,FTLN 2417And in this borrowed likeness of shrunk deathFTLN 2418Thou shalt continue two and forty hoursFTLN 2419And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.FTLN 2420Now, when the bridegroom in the morning comesFTLN 2421110To rouse thee from thy bed, there art thou dead.FTLN 2422Then, as the manner of our country is,FTLN 2423In thy best robes uncovered on the bierFTLN 2424Thou shalt be borne to that same ancient vaultFTLN 2425Where all the kindred of the Capulets lie.FTLN 2426115In the meantime, against thou shalt awake,FTLN 2427Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift,FTLN 2428And hither shall he come, and he and IFTLN 2429Will watch thy waking, and that very nightFTLN 2430Shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua.FTLN 2431120And this shall free thee from this present shame,FTLN 2432If no inconstant toy nor womanish fearFTLN 2433Abate thy valor in the acting it.JULIETFTLN 2434Give me, give me! O, tell not me of fear!FRIAR LAWRENCE, giving Juliet the vialFTLN 2435Hold, get you gone. Be strong and prosperousFTLN 2436125In this resolve. I’ll send a friar with speedFTLN 2437To Mantua with my letters to thy lord.JULIETFTLN 2438Love give me strength, and strength shall helpFTLN 2439afford.FTLN 2440Farewell, dear father.They exit in different directions.

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Scene2

Enter Father Capulet, Mother, Nurse, and Servingmen,two or three.

CAPULETFTLN 2441So many guests invite as here are writ.One or two of the Servingmen exitwith Capulet’s list.FTLN 2442Sirrah, go hire me twenty cunning cooks.SERVINGMANFTLN 2443You shall have none ill, sir, for I’ll try ifFTLN 2444they can lick their fingers.CAPULETFTLN 24455How canst thou try them so?SERVINGMANFTLN 2446Marry, sir, ’tis an ill cook that cannot lickFTLN 2447his own fingers. Therefore he that cannot lick hisFTLN 2448fingers goes not with me.CAPULETFTLN 2449Go, begone.Servingman exits.FTLN 245010We shall be much unfurnished for this time.—FTLN 2451What, is my daughter gone to Friar Lawrence?NURSEFTLN 2452Ay, forsooth.CAPULETFTLN 2453Well, he may chance to do some good on her.FTLN 2454A peevish self-willed harlotry it is.

CAPULETFTLN 2464Send for the County. Go tell him of this.FTLN 246525I’ll have this knot knit up tomorrow morning.JULIETFTLN 2466I met the youthful lord at Lawrence’ cellFTLN 2467And gave him what becomèd love I might,FTLN 2468Not stepping o’er the bounds of modesty.CAPULETFTLN 2469Why, I am glad on ’t. This is well. Stand up.Juliet rises.FTLN 247030This is as ’t should be.—Let me see the County.FTLN 2471Ay, marry, go, I say, and fetch him hither.—FTLN 2472Now, afore God, this reverend holy friar,FTLN 2473All our whole city is much bound to him.JULIETFTLN 2474Nurse, will you go with me into my closetFTLN 247535To help me sort such needful ornamentsFTLN 2476As you think fit to furnish me tomorrow?LADY CAPULETFTLN 2477No, not till Thursday. There is time enough.CAPULETFTLN 2478Go, nurse. Go with her. We’ll to church tomorrow.Juliet and the Nurse exit.LADY CAPULETFTLN 2479We shall be short in our provision.FTLN 248040’Tis now near night.CAPULETFTLN 2481Tush, I will stir about,FTLN 2482And all things shall be well, I warrant thee, wife.FTLN 2483Go thou to Juliet. Help to deck up her.FTLN 2484I’ll not to bed tonight. Let me alone.FTLN 248545I’ll play the housewife for this once.—What ho!—FTLN 2486They are all forth. Well, I will walk myselfFTLN 2487To County Paris, to prepare up himFTLN 2488Against tomorrow. My heart is wondrous lightFTLN 2489Since this same wayward girl is so reclaimed.They exit.

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Scene3

Enter Juliet and Nurse.

JULIETFTLN 2490Ay, those attires are best. But, gentle nurse,FTLN 2491I pray thee leave me to myself tonight,FTLN 2492For I have need of many orisonsFTLN 2493To move the heavens to smile upon my state,FTLN 24945Which, well thou knowest, is cross and full of sin.

Enter Lady Capulet.

LADY CAPULETFTLN 2495What, are you busy, ho? Need you my help?JULIETFTLN 2496No, madam, we have culled such necessariesFTLN 2497As are behooveful for our state tomorrow.FTLN 2498So please you, let me now be left alone,FTLN 249910And let the Nurse this night sit up with you,FTLN 2500For I am sure you have your hands full allFTLN 2501In this so sudden business.LADY CAPULETFTLN 2502Good night.FTLN 2503Get thee to bed and rest, for thou hast need.Lady Capulet and the Nurse exit.JULIETFTLN 250415Farewell.—God knows when we shall meet again.FTLN 2505I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veinsFTLN 2506That almost freezes up the heat of life.FTLN 2507I’ll call them back again to comfort me.—FTLN 2508Nurse!—What should she do here?FTLN 250920My dismal scene I needs must act alone.FTLN 2510Come, vial.She takes out the vial.FTLN 2511What if this mixture do not work at all?FTLN 2512Shall I be married then tomorrow morning?She takes out her knifeand puts it down beside her.FTLN 2513No, no, this shall forbid it. Lie thou there.FTLN 251425What if it be a poison which the Friar

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FTLN 2515Subtly hath ministered to have me dead,FTLN 2516Lest in this marriage he should be dishonoredFTLN 2517Because he married me before to Romeo?FTLN 2518I fear it is. And yet methinks it should not,FTLN 251930For he hath still been tried a holy man.FTLN 2520How if, when I am laid into the tomb,FTLN 2521I wake before the time that RomeoFTLN 2522Come to redeem me? There’s a fearful point.FTLN 2523Shall I not then be stifled in the vault,FTLN 252435To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in,FTLN 2525And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?FTLN 2526Or, if I live, is it not very likeFTLN 2527The horrible conceit of death and night,FTLN 2528Together with the terror of the place—FTLN 252940As in a vault, an ancient receptacleFTLN 2530Where for this many hundred years the bonesFTLN 2531Of all my buried ancestors are packed;FTLN 2532Where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth,FTLN 2533Lies fest’ring in his shroud; where, as they say,FTLN 253445At some hours in the night spirits resort—FTLN 2535Alack, alack, is it not like that I,FTLN 2536So early waking, what with loathsome smells,FTLN 2537And shrieks like mandrakes torn out of the earth,FTLN 2538That living mortals, hearing them, run mad—FTLN 253950O, if I wake, shall I not be distraught,FTLN 2540Environèd with all these hideous fears,FTLN 2541And madly play with my forefathers’ joints,FTLN 2542And pluck the mangled Tybalt from his shroud,FTLN 2543And, in this rage, with some great kinsman’s bone,FTLN 254455As with a club, dash out my desp’rate brains?FTLN 2545O look, methinks I see my cousin’s ghostFTLN 2546Seeking out Romeo that did spit his bodyFTLN 2547Upon a rapier’s point! Stay, Tybalt, stay!FTLN 2548Romeo, Romeo, Romeo! Here’s drink. I drink toFTLN 254960thee.She drinks and falls upon her bedwithin the curtains.

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Scene4

Enter Lady Capulet and Nurse.

LADY CAPULETFTLN 2550Hold, take these keys, and fetch more spices, nurse.NURSEFTLN 2551They call for dates and quinces in the pastry.

Enter old Capulet.

CAPULETFTLN 2552Come, stir, stir, stir! The second cock hath crowed.FTLN 2553The curfew bell hath rung. ’Tis three o’clock.—FTLN 25545Look to the baked meats, good Angelica.FTLN 2555Spare not for cost.NURSEFTLN 2556Go, you cot-quean, go,FTLN 2557Get you to bed. Faith, you’ll be sick tomorrowFTLN 2558For this night’s watching.CAPULETFTLN 255910No, not a whit. What, I have watched ere nowFTLN 2560All night for lesser cause, and ne’er been sick.LADY CAPULETFTLN 2561Ay, you have been a mouse-hunt in your time,FTLN 2562But I will watch you from such watching now.Lady Capulet and Nurse exit.CAPULETFTLN 2563A jealous hood, a jealous hood!

Enter three or four Servingmen with spits and logsand baskets.

FTLN 256415Now fellow,FTLN 2565What is there?FIRSTSERVINGMANFTLN 2566Things for the cook, sir, but I know not what.CAPULETFTLN 2567Make haste, make haste.First Servingman exits.FTLN 2568Sirrah, fetch drier logs.FTLN 256920Call Peter. He will show thee where they are.

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SECONDSERVINGMANFTLN 2570I have a head, sir, that will find out logsFTLN 2571And never trouble Peter for the matter.CAPULETFTLN 2572Mass, and well said. A merry whoreson, ha!FTLN 2573Thou shalt be loggerhead.Second Servingman exits.FTLN 257425Good faith, ’tis day.FTLN 2575The County will be here with music straight,Play music.FTLN 2576For so he said he would. I hear him near.—FTLN 2577Nurse!—Wife! What ho!—What, nurse, I say!

NURSE, approaching the bedFTLN 2582Mistress! What, mistress! Juliet!—Fast, I warrantFTLN 2583her, she—FTLN 2584Why, lamb, why, lady! Fie, you slugabed!FTLN 2585Why, love, I say! Madam! Sweetheart! Why, bride!—FTLN 25865What, not a word?—You take your pennyworthsFTLN 2587now.FTLN 2588Sleep for a week, for the next night, I warrant,FTLN 2589The County Paris hath set up his restFTLN 2590That you shall rest but little.—God forgive me,FTLN 259110Marry, and amen! How sound is she asleep!FTLN 2592I needs must wake her.—Madam, madam, madam!FTLN 2593Ay, let the County take you in your bed,

CAPULETFTLN 2608For shame, bring Juliet forth. Her lord is come.NURSEFTLN 2609She’s dead, deceased. She’s dead, alack the day!LADY CAPULETFTLN 2610Alack the day, she’s dead, she’s dead, she’s dead.CAPULETFTLN 261130Ha, let me see her! Out, alas, she’s cold.FTLN 2612Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff.FTLN 2613Life and these lips have long been separated.FTLN 2614Death lies on her like an untimely frostFTLN 2615Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.NURSEFTLN 261635O lamentable day!

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LADY CAPULETFTLN 2617O woeful time!CAPULETFTLN 2618Death, that hath ta’en her hence to make me wail,FTLN 2619Ties up my tongue and will not let me speak.

Enter Friar Lawrence and the County Paris, withMusicians.

FRIAR LAWRENCEFTLN 2620Come, is the bride ready to go to church?CAPULETFTLN 262140Ready to go, but never to return.—FTLN 2622O son, the night before thy wedding dayFTLN 2623Hath Death lain with thy wife. There she lies,FTLN 2624Flower as she was, deflowerèd by him.FTLN 2625Death is my son-in-law; Death is my heir.FTLN 262645My daughter he hath wedded. I will dieFTLN 2627And leave him all. Life, living, all is Death’s.PARISFTLN 2628Have I thought long to see this morning’s face,FTLN 2629And doth it give me such a sight as this?LADY CAPULETFTLN 2630Accursed, unhappy, wretched, hateful day!FTLN 263150Most miserable hour that e’er time sawFTLN 2632In lasting labor of his pilgrimage!FTLN 2633But one, poor one, one poor and loving child,FTLN 2634But one thing to rejoice and solace in,FTLN 2635And cruel death hath catched it from my sight!NURSEFTLN 263655O woe, O woeful, woeful, woeful day!FTLN 2637Most lamentable day, most woeful dayFTLN 2638That ever, ever I did yet behold!FTLN 2639O day, O day, O day, O hateful day!FTLN 2640Never was seen so black a day as this!FTLN 264160O woeful day, O woeful day!PARISFTLN 2642Beguiled, divorcèd, wrongèd, spited, slain!

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FTLN 2643Most detestable death, by thee beguiled,FTLN 2644By cruel, cruel thee quite overthrown!FTLN 2645O love! O life! Not life, but love in death!CAPULETFTLN 264665Despised, distressèd, hated, martyred, killed!FTLN 2647Uncomfortable time, why cam’st thou nowFTLN 2648To murder, murder our solemnity?FTLN 2649O child! O child! My soul and not my child!FTLN 2650Dead art thou! Alack, my child is dead,FTLN 265170And with my child my joys are burièd.FRIAR LAWRENCEFTLN 2652Peace, ho, for shame! Confusion’s cure lives notFTLN 2653In these confusions. Heaven and yourselfFTLN 2654Had part in this fair maid. Now heaven hath all,FTLN 2655And all the better is it for the maid.FTLN 265675Your part in her you could not keep from death,FTLN 2657But heaven keeps his part in eternal life.FTLN 2658The most you sought was her promotion,FTLN 2659For ’twas your heaven she should be advanced;FTLN 2660And weep you now, seeing she is advancedFTLN 266180Above the clouds, as high as heaven itself?FTLN 2662O, in this love you love your child so illFTLN 2663That you run mad, seeing that she is well.FTLN 2664She’s not well married that lives married long,FTLN 2665But she’s best married that dies married young.FTLN 266685Dry up your tears, and stick your rosemaryFTLN 2667On this fair corse, and, as the custom is,FTLN 2668And in her best array, bear her to church,FTLN 2669For though fond nature bids us all lament,FTLN 2670Yet nature’s tears are reason’s merriment.CAPULETFTLN 267190All things that we ordainèd festivalFTLN 2672Turn from their office to black funeral:FTLN 2673Our instruments to melancholy bells,FTLN 2674Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast,FTLN 2675Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change,

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FTLN 267695Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse,FTLN 2677And all things change them to the contrary.FRIAR LAWRENCEFTLN 2678Sir, go you in, and, madam, go with him,FTLN 2679And go, Sir Paris. Everyone prepareFTLN 2680To follow this fair corse unto her grave.FTLN 2681100The heavens do lour upon you for some ill.FTLN 2682Move them no more by crossing their high will.All but the Nurse and the Musicians exit.FIRSTMUSICIANFTLN 2683Faith, we may put up our pipes and be gone.NURSEFTLN 2684Honest good fellows, ah, put up, put up,FTLN 2685For, well you know, this is a pitiful case.FIRSTMUSICIANFTLN 2686105Ay, by my troth, the case may be amended.Nurse exits.

Enter Peter.

PETERFTLN 2687Musicians, O musicians, “Heart’s ease,”FTLN 2688“Heart’s ease.” O, an you will have me live, playFTLN 2689“Heart’s ease.”FIRSTMUSICIANFTLN 2690Why “Heart’s ease?”PETERFTLN 2691110O musicians, because my heart itself plays “MyFTLN 2692heart is full.” O, play me some merry dump toFTLN 2693comfort me.FIRSTMUSICIANFTLN 2694Not a dump, we. ’Tis no time to playFTLN 2695now.PETERFTLN 2696115You will not then?FIRSTMUSICIANFTLN 2697No.PETERFTLN 2698I will then give it you soundly.FIRSTMUSICIANFTLN 2699What will you give us?PETERFTLN 2700No money, on my faith, but the gleek. I will giveFTLN 2701120you the minstrel.FIRSTMUSICIANFTLN 2702Then will I give you theFTLN 2703serving-creature.

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PETERFTLN 2704Then will I lay the serving-creature’s dagger onFTLN 2705your pate. I will carry no crochets. I’ll re you, I’ll faFTLN 2706125you. Do you note me?FIRSTMUSICIANFTLN 2707An you re us and fa us, you note us.SECOND MUSICIANFTLN 2708Pray you, put up your dagger andFTLN 2709put out your wit.PETERFTLN 2710Then have at you with my wit. I will dry-beatFTLN 2711130you with an iron wit, and put up my iron dagger.FTLN 2712Answer me like men.Sings.FTLN 2713When griping griefs the heart doth woundFTLN 2714And doleful dumps the mind oppress,FTLN 2715Then music with her silver sound—FTLN 2716135Why “silver sound”? Why “music with her silverFTLN 2717sound”? What say you, Simon Catling?FIRSTMUSICIANFTLN 2718Marry, sir, because silver hath aFTLN 2719sweet sound.PETERFTLN 2720Prates.—What say you, Hugh Rebeck?SECOND MUSICIANFTLN 2721140I say “silver sound” because musiciansFTLN 2722sound for silver.PETERFTLN 2723Prates too.—What say you, James Soundpost?THIRD MUSICIANFTLN 2724Faith, I know not what to say.PETERFTLN 2725O, I cry you mercy. You are the singer. I will sayFTLN 2726145for you. It is “music with her silver sound” becauseFTLN 2727musicians have no gold for sounding:Sings.FTLN 2728Then music with her silver soundFTLN 2729With speedy help doth lend redress.He exits.FIRSTMUSICIANFTLN 2730What a pestilent knave is this same!SECOND MUSICIANFTLN 2731150Hang him, Jack. Come, we’ll inFTLN 2732here, tarry for the mourners, and stay dinner.They exit.

ACT5

Scene1

Enter Romeo.

ROMEOFTLN 2733If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep,FTLN 2734My dreams presage some joyful news at hand.FTLN 2735My bosom’s lord sits lightly in his throne,FTLN 2736And all this day an unaccustomed spiritFTLN 27375Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.FTLN 2738I dreamt my lady came and found me deadFTLN 2739(Strange dream that gives a dead man leave toFTLN 2740think!)FTLN 2741And breathed such life with kisses in my lipsFTLN 274210That I revived and was an emperor.FTLN 2743Ah me, how sweet is love itself possessedFTLN 2744When but love’s shadows are so rich in joy!

Enter Romeo’s man Balthasar, in riding boots.

FTLN 2745News from Verona!—How now, Balthasar?FTLN 2746Dost thou not bring me letters from the Friar?FTLN 274715How doth my lady? Is my father well?FTLN 2748How doth my Juliet? That I ask again,FTLN 2749For nothing can be ill if she be well.BALTHASARFTLN 2750Then she is well and nothing can be ill.FTLN 2751Her body sleeps in Capels’ monument,FTLN 275220And her immortal part with angels lives.

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FTLN 2753I saw her laid low in her kindred’s vaultFTLN 2754And presently took post to tell it you.FTLN 2755O, pardon me for bringing these ill news,FTLN 2756Since you did leave it for my office, sir.ROMEOFTLN 275725Is it e’en so?—Then I deny you, stars!—FTLN 2758Thou knowest my lodging. Get me ink and paper,FTLN 2759And hire post-horses. I will hence tonight.BALTHASARFTLN 2760I do beseech you, sir, have patience.FTLN 2761Your looks are pale and wild and do importFTLN 276230Some misadventure.ROMEOFTLN 2763Tush, thou art deceived.FTLN 2764Leave me, and do the thing I bid thee do.FTLN 2765Hast thou no letters to me from the Friar?BALTHASARFTLN 2766No, my good lord.ROMEOFTLN 276735No matter. Get thee gone,FTLN 2768And hire those horses. I’ll be with thee straight.Balthasar exits.FTLN 2769Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee tonight.FTLN 2770Let’s see for means. O mischief, thou art swiftFTLN 2771To enter in the thoughts of desperate men.FTLN 277240I do remember an apothecaryFTLN 2773(And hereabouts he dwells) which late I notedFTLN 2774In tattered weeds, with overwhelming brows,FTLN 2775Culling of simples. Meager were his looks.FTLN 2776Sharp misery had worn him to the bones.FTLN 277745And in his needy shop a tortoise hung,FTLN 2778An alligator stuffed, and other skinsFTLN 2779Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves,FTLN 2780A beggarly account of empty boxes,FTLN 2781Green earthen pots, bladders, and musty seeds,FTLN 278250Remnants of packthread, and old cakes of rosesFTLN 2783Were thinly scattered to make up a show.FTLN 2784Noting this penury, to myself I said

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FTLN 2785“An if a man did need a poison now,FTLN 2786Whose sale is present death in Mantua,FTLN 278755Here lives a caitiff wretch would sell it him.”FTLN 2788O, this same thought did but forerun my need,FTLN 2789And this same needy man must sell it me.FTLN 2790As I remember, this should be the house.FTLN 2791Being holiday, the beggar’s shop is shut.—FTLN 279260What ho, Apothecary!

Enter Apothecary.

APOTHECARYFTLN 2793Who calls so loud?ROMEOFTLN 2794Come hither, man. I see that thou art poor.He offers money.FTLN 2795Hold, there is forty ducats. Let me haveFTLN 2796A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gearFTLN 279765As will disperse itself through all the veins,FTLN 2798That the life-weary taker may fall dead,FTLN 2799And that the trunk may be discharged of breathFTLN 2800As violently as hasty powder firedFTLN 2801Doth hurry from the fatal cannon’s womb.APOTHECARYFTLN 280270Such mortal drugs I have, but Mantua’s lawFTLN 2803Is death to any he that utters them.ROMEOFTLN 2804Art thou so bare and full of wretchedness,FTLN 2805And fearest to die? Famine is in thy cheeks,FTLN 2806Need and oppression starveth in thy eyes,FTLN 280775Contempt and beggary hangs upon thy back.FTLN 2808The world is not thy friend, nor the world’s law.FTLN 2809The world affords no law to make thee rich.FTLN 2810Then be not poor, but break it, and take this.APOTHECARYFTLN 2811My poverty, but not my will, consents.ROMEOFTLN 281280I pay thy poverty and not thy will.

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APOTHECARY, giving him the poisonFTLN 2813Put this in any liquid thing you willFTLN 2814And drink it off, and if you had the strengthFTLN 2815Of twenty men, it would dispatch you straight.ROMEO, handing him the moneyFTLN 2816There is thy gold, worse poison to men’s souls,FTLN 281785Doing more murder in this loathsome worldFTLN 2818Than these poor compounds that thou mayst notFTLN 2819sell.FTLN 2820I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none.FTLN 2821Farewell, buy food, and get thyself in flesh.Apothecary exits.FTLN 282290Come, cordial and not poison, go with meFTLN 2823To Juliet’s grave, for there must I use thee.He exits.

Scene2

Enter Friar John.

FRIAR JOHNFTLN 2824Holy Franciscan friar, brother, ho!

Enter Friar Lawrence.

FRIAR LAWRENCEFTLN 2825This same should be the voice of Friar John.—FTLN 2826Welcome from Mantua. What says Romeo?FTLN 2827Or, if his mind be writ, give me his letter.FRIAR JOHNFTLN 28285Going to find a barefoot brother out,FTLN 2829One of our order, to associate me,FTLN 2830Here in this city visiting the sick,FTLN 2831And finding him, the searchers of the town,FTLN 2832Suspecting that we both were in a houseFTLN 283310Where the infectious pestilence did reign,FTLN 2834Sealed up the doors and would not let us forth,FTLN 2835So that my speed to Mantua there was stayed.

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FRIAR LAWRENCEFTLN 2836Who bare my letter, then, to Romeo?FRIAR JOHNFTLN 2837I could not send it—here it is again—Returning the letter.FTLN 283815Nor get a messenger to bring it thee,FTLN 2839So fearful were they of infection.FRIAR LAWRENCEFTLN 2840Unhappy fortune! By my brotherhood,FTLN 2841The letter was not nice but full of charge,FTLN 2842Of dear import, and the neglecting itFTLN 284320May do much danger. Friar John, go hence.FTLN 2844Get me an iron crow and bring it straightFTLN 2845Unto my cell.FRIAR JOHNFTLN 2846Brother, I’ll go and bring it thee.He exits.FRIAR LAWRENCEFTLN 2847Now must I to the monument alone.FTLN 284825Within this three hours will fair Juliet wake.FTLN 2849She will beshrew me much that RomeoFTLN 2850Hath had no notice of these accidents.FTLN 2851But I will write again to Mantua,FTLN 2852And keep her at my cell till Romeo come.FTLN 285330Poor living corse, closed in a dead man’s tomb!He exits.

Scene3

Enter Paris and his Page.

PARISFTLN 2854Give me thy torch, boy. Hence and stand aloof.FTLN 2855Yet put it out, for I would not be seen.FTLN 2856Under yond yew trees lay thee all along,FTLN 2857Holding thy ear close to the hollow ground.FTLN 28585So shall no foot upon the churchyard treadFTLN 2859(Being loose, unfirm, with digging up of graves)

ROMEOFTLN 2875Give me that mattock and the wrenching iron.FTLN 2876Hold, take this letter. Early in the morningFTLN 2877See thou deliver it to my lord and father.FTLN 287825Give me the light. Upon thy life I charge thee,FTLN 2879Whate’er thou hearest or seest, stand all aloofFTLN 2880And do not interrupt me in my course.FTLN 2881Why I descend into this bed of deathFTLN 2882Is partly to behold my lady’s face,FTLN 288330But chiefly to take thence from her dead fingerFTLN 2884A precious ring, a ring that I must useFTLN 2885In dear employment. Therefore hence, begone.FTLN 2886But, if thou, jealous, dost return to pryFTLN 2887In what I farther shall intend to do,

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FTLN 288835By heaven, I will tear thee joint by jointFTLN 2889And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs.FTLN 2890The time and my intents are savage-wild,FTLN 2891More fierce and more inexorable farFTLN 2892Than empty tigers or the roaring sea.BALTHASARFTLN 289340I will be gone, sir, and not trouble you.ROMEOFTLN 2894So shalt thou show me friendship. Take thou that.Giving money.FTLN 2895Live and be prosperous, and farewell, good fellow.BALTHASAR, asideFTLN 2896For all this same, I’ll hide me hereabout.FTLN 2897His looks I fear, and his intents I doubt.He steps aside.ROMEO, beginning to force open the tombFTLN 289845Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death,FTLN 2899Gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth,FTLN 2900Thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to open,FTLN 2901And in despite I’ll cram thee with more food.PARISFTLN 2902This is that banished haughty MontagueFTLN 290350That murdered my love’s cousin, with which griefFTLN 2904It is supposèd the fair creature died,FTLN 2905And here is come to do some villainous shameFTLN 2906To the dead bodies. I will apprehend him.Stepping forward.FTLN 2907Stop thy unhallowed toil, vile Montague.FTLN 290855Can vengeance be pursued further than death?FTLN 2909Condemnèd villain, I do apprehend thee.FTLN 2910Obey and go with me, for thou must die.ROMEOFTLN 2911I must indeed, and therefore came I hither.FTLN 2912Good gentle youth, tempt not a desp’rate man.FTLN 291360Fly hence and leave me. Think upon these gone.FTLN 2914Let them affright thee. I beseech thee, youth,

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FTLN 2915Put not another sin upon my headFTLN 2916By urging me to fury. O, begone!FTLN 2917By heaven, I love thee better than myself,FTLN 291865For I come hither armed against myself.FTLN 2919Stay not, begone, live, and hereafter sayFTLN 2920A madman’s mercy bid thee run away.PARISFTLN 2921I do defy thy comminationFTLN 2922And apprehend thee for a felon here.ROMEOFTLN 292370Wilt thou provoke me? Then have at thee, boy!They draw and fight.PAGEFTLN 2924O Lord, they fight! I will go call the watch.He exits.PARISFTLN 2925O, I am slain! If thou be merciful,FTLN 2926Open the tomb; lay me with Juliet.He dies.ROMEOFTLN 2927In faith, I will.—Let me peruse this face.FTLN 292875Mercutio’s kinsman, noble County Paris!FTLN 2929What said my man when my betossèd soulFTLN 2930Did not attend him as we rode? I thinkFTLN 2931He told me Paris should have married Juliet.FTLN 2932Said he not so? Or did I dream it so?FTLN 293380Or am I mad, hearing him talk of Juliet,FTLN 2934To think it was so?—O, give me thy hand,FTLN 2935One writ with me in sour misfortune’s book!FTLN 2936I’ll bury thee in a triumphant grave.—He opens the tomb.FTLN 2937A grave? O, no. A lantern, slaughtered youth,FTLN 293885For here lies Juliet, and her beauty makesFTLN 2939This vault a feasting presence full of light.—FTLN 2940Death, lie thou there, by a dead man interred.Laying Paris in the tomb.FTLN 2941How oft when men are at the point of death

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FTLN 2942Have they been merry, which their keepers callFTLN 294390A light’ning before death! O, how may IFTLN 2944Call this a light’ning?—O my love, my wife,FTLN 2945Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath,FTLN 2946Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.FTLN 2947Thou art not conquered. Beauty’s ensign yetFTLN 294895Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,FTLN 2949And death’s pale flag is not advancèd there.—FTLN 2950Tybalt, liest thou there in thy bloody sheet?FTLN 2951O, what more favor can I do to theeFTLN 2952Than with that hand that cut thy youth in twainFTLN 2953100To sunder his that was thine enemy?FTLN 2954Forgive me, cousin.—Ah, dear Juliet,FTLN 2955Why art thou yet so fair? Shall I believeFTLN 2956That unsubstantial death is amorous,FTLN 2957And that the lean abhorrèd monster keepsFTLN 2958105Thee here in dark to be his paramour?FTLN 2959For fear of that I still will stay with theeFTLN 2960And never from this palace of dim nightFTLN 2961Depart again. Here, here will I remainFTLN 2962With worms that are thy chambermaids. O, hereFTLN 2963110Will I set up my everlasting restFTLN 2964And shake the yoke of inauspicious starsFTLN 2965From this world-wearied flesh! Eyes, look your last.FTLN 2966Arms, take your last embrace. And, lips, O, youFTLN 2967The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kissFTLN 2968115A dateless bargain to engrossing death.Kissing Juliet.FTLN 2969Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavory guide!FTLN 2970Thou desperate pilot, now at once run onFTLN 2971The dashing rocks thy seasick weary bark!FTLN 2972Here’s to my love.Drinking. O true apothecary,FTLN 2973120Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.He dies.

Enter Friar Lawrence with lantern, crow, and spade.

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FRIAR LAWRENCEFTLN 2974Saint Francis be my speed! How oft tonightFTLN 2975Have my old feet stumbled at graves!—Who’s there?BALTHASARFTLN 2976Here’s one, a friend, and one that knows you well.FRIAR LAWRENCEFTLN 2977Bliss be upon you. Tell me, good my friend,FTLN 2978125What torch is yond that vainly lends his lightFTLN 2979To grubs and eyeless skulls? As I discern,FTLN 2980It burneth in the Capels’ monument.BALTHASARFTLN 2981It doth so, holy sir, and there’s my master,FTLN 2982One that you love.FRIAR LAWRENCEFTLN 2983130Who is it?BALTHASARFTLN 2984Romeo.FRIAR LAWRENCEFTLN 2985How long hath he been there?BALTHASARFTLN 2986Full half an hour.FRIAR LAWRENCEFTLN 2987Go with me to the vault.BALTHASARFTLN 2988135I dare not, sir.FTLN 2989My master knows not but I am gone hence,FTLN 2990And fearfully did menace me with deathFTLN 2991If I did stay to look on his intents.FRIAR LAWRENCEFTLN 2992Stay, then. I’ll go alone. Fear comes upon me.FTLN 2993140O, much I fear some ill unthrifty thing.BALTHASARFTLN 2994As I did sleep under this yew tree here,FTLN 2995I dreamt my master and another fought,FTLN 2996And that my master slew him.FRIAR LAWRENCE, moving toward the tombFTLN 2997Romeo!—FTLN 2998145Alack, alack, what blood is this which stainsFTLN 2999The stony entrance of this sepulcher?FTLN 3000What mean these masterless and gory swords

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FTLN 3001To lie discolored by this place of peace?FTLN 3002Romeo! O, pale! Who else? What, Paris too?FTLN 3003150And steeped in blood? Ah, what an unkind hourFTLN 3004Is guilty of this lamentable chance!FTLN 3005The lady stirs.JULIETFTLN 3006O comfortable friar, where is my lord?FTLN 3007I do remember well where I should be,FTLN 3008155And there I am. Where is my Romeo?FRIAR LAWRENCEFTLN 3009I hear some noise.—Lady, come from that nestFTLN 3010Of death, contagion, and unnatural sleep.FTLN 3011A greater power than we can contradictFTLN 3012Hath thwarted our intents. Come, come away.FTLN 3013160Thy husband in thy bosom there lies dead,FTLN 3014And Paris, too. Come, I’ll dispose of theeFTLN 3015Among a sisterhood of holy nuns.FTLN 3016Stay not to question, for the watch is coming.FTLN 3017Come, go, good Juliet. I dare no longer stay.JULIETFTLN 3018165Go, get thee hence, for I will not away.He exits.FTLN 3019What’s here? A cup closed in my true love’s hand?FTLN 3020Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end.—FTLN 3021O churl, drunk all, and left no friendly dropFTLN 3022To help me after! I will kiss thy lips.FTLN 3023170Haply some poison yet doth hang on them,FTLN 3024To make me die with a restorative.She kisses him.FTLN 3025Thy lips are warm!

PAGEFTLN 3029This is the place, there where the torch doth burn.FIRST WATCHFTLN 3030The ground is bloody.—Search about theFTLN 3031churchyard.FTLN 3032Go, some of you; whoe’er you find, attach.Some watchmen exit.FTLN 3033180Pitiful sight! Here lies the County slain,FTLN 3034And Juliet bleeding, warm, and newly dead,FTLN 3035Who here hath lain this two days burièd.—FTLN 3036Go, tell the Prince. Run to the Capulets.FTLN 3037Raise up the Montagues. Some others search.Others exit.FTLN 3038185We see the ground whereon these woes do lie,FTLN 3039But the true ground of all these piteous woesFTLN 3040We cannot without circumstance descry.

Enter Watchmenwith Romeo’s man Balthasar.

SECOND WATCHFTLN 3041Here’s Romeo’s man. We found him in theFTLN 3042churchyard.FIRST WATCHFTLN 3043190Hold him in safety till the Prince come hither.

Enter Friar Lawrence and another Watchman.

THIRD WATCHFTLN 3044Here is a friar that trembles, sighs, and weeps.FTLN 3045We took this mattock and this spade from himFTLN 3046As he was coming from this churchyard’s side.FIRST WATCHFTLN 3047A great suspicion. Stay the Friar too.

CAPULETFTLN 3050What should it be that is so shrieked abroad?LADY CAPULETFTLN 3051O, the people in the street cry “Romeo,”FTLN 3052Some “Juliet,” and some “Paris,” and all runFTLN 3053200With open outcry toward our monument.PRINCEFTLN 3054What fear is this which startles in our ears?FIRST WATCHFTLN 3055Sovereign, here lies the County Paris slain,FTLN 3056And Romeo dead, and Juliet, dead before,FTLN 3057Warm and new killed.PRINCEFTLN 3058205Search, seek, and know how this foul murderFTLN 3059comes.FIRST WATCHFTLN 3060Here is a friar, and slaughtered Romeo’s man,FTLN 3061With instruments upon them fit to openFTLN 3062These dead men’s tombs.CAPULETFTLN 3063210O heavens! O wife, look how our daughter bleeds!FTLN 3064This dagger hath mista’en, for, lo, his houseFTLN 3065Is empty on the back of Montague,FTLN 3066And it mis-sheathèd in my daughter’s bosom.LADY CAPULETFTLN 3067O me, this sight of death is as a bellFTLN 3068215That warns my old age to a sepulcher.

Enter Montague.

PRINCEFTLN 3069Come, Montague, for thou art early upFTLN 3070To see thy son and heir now early down.MONTAGUEFTLN 3071Alas, my liege, my wife is dead tonight.

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FTLN 3072Grief of my son’s exile hath stopped her breath.FTLN 3073220What further woe conspires against mine age?PRINCEFTLN 3074Look, and thou shalt see.MONTAGUE, seeing Romeo deadFTLN 3075O thou untaught! What manners is in this,FTLN 3076To press before thy father to a grave?PRINCEFTLN 3077Seal up the mouth of outrage for awhile,FTLN 3078225Till we can clear these ambiguitiesFTLN 3079And know their spring, their head, their trueFTLN 3080descent,FTLN 3081And then will I be general of your woesFTLN 3082And lead you even to death. Meantime forbear,FTLN 3083230And let mischance be slave to patience.—FTLN 3084Bring forth the parties of suspicion.FRIAR LAWRENCEFTLN 3085I am the greatest, able to do least,FTLN 3086Yet most suspected, as the time and placeFTLN 3087Doth make against me, of this direful murder.FTLN 3088235And here I stand, both to impeach and purgeFTLN 3089Myself condemnèd and myself excused.PRINCEFTLN 3090Then say at once what thou dost know in this.FRIAR LAWRENCEFTLN 3091I will be brief, for my short date of breathFTLN 3092Is not so long as is a tedious tale.FTLN 3093240Romeo, there dead, was husband to that Juliet,FTLN 3094And she, there dead, that Romeo’s faithful wife.FTLN 3095I married them, and their stol’n marriage dayFTLN 3096Was Tybalt’s doomsday, whose untimely deathFTLN 3097Banished the new-made bridegroom from this city,FTLN 3098245For whom, and not for Tybalt, Juliet pined.FTLN 3099You, to remove that siege of grief from her,FTLN 3100Betrothed and would have married her perforceFTLN 3101To County Paris. Then comes she to me,FTLN 3102And with wild looks bid me devise some mean

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FTLN 3103250To rid her from this second marriage,FTLN 3104Or in my cell there would she kill herself.FTLN 3105Then gave I her (so tutored by my art)FTLN 3106A sleeping potion, which so took effectFTLN 3107As I intended, for it wrought on herFTLN 3108255The form of death. Meantime I writ to RomeoFTLN 3109That he should hither come as this dire nightFTLN 3110To help to take her from her borrowed grave,FTLN 3111Being the time the potion’s force should cease.FTLN 3112But he which bore my letter, Friar John,FTLN 3113260Was stayed by accident, and yesternightFTLN 3114Returned my letter back. Then all aloneFTLN 3115At the prefixèd hour of her wakingFTLN 3116Came I to take her from her kindred’s vault,FTLN 3117Meaning to keep her closely at my cellFTLN 3118265Till I conveniently could send to Romeo.FTLN 3119But when I came, some minute ere the timeFTLN 3120Of her awakening, here untimely layFTLN 3121The noble Paris and true Romeo dead.FTLN 3122She wakes, and I entreated her come forthFTLN 3123270And bear this work of heaven with patience.FTLN 3124But then a noise did scare me from the tomb,FTLN 3125And she, too desperate, would not go with meFTLN 3126But, as it seems, did violence on herself.FTLN 3127All this I know, and to the marriageFTLN 3128275Her nurse is privy. And if aught in thisFTLN 3129Miscarried by my fault, let my old lifeFTLN 3130Be sacrificed some hour before his timeFTLN 3131Unto the rigor of severest law.PRINCEFTLN 3132We still have known thee for a holy man.—FTLN 3133280Where’s Romeo’s man? What can he say to this?BALTHASARFTLN 3134I brought my master news of Juliet’s death,FTLN 3135And then in post he came from MantuaFTLN 3136To this same place, to this same monument.

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FTLN 3137This letter he early bid me give his fatherFTLN 3138285And threatened me with death, going in the vault,FTLN 3139If I departed not and left him there.PRINCEFTLN 3140Give me the letter. I will look on it.—He takes Romeo’s letter.FTLN 3141Where is the County’s page, that raised theFTLN 3142watch?—FTLN 3143290Sirrah, what made your master in this place?PAGEFTLN 3144He came with flowers to strew his lady’s graveFTLN 3145And bid me stand aloof, and so I did.FTLN 3146Anon comes one with light to ope the tomb,FTLN 3147And by and by my master drew on him,FTLN 3148295And then I ran away to call the watch.PRINCEFTLN 3149This letter doth make good the Friar’s words,FTLN 3150Their course of love, the tidings of her death;FTLN 3151And here he writes that he did buy a poisonFTLN 3152Of a poor ’pothecary, and therewithalFTLN 3153300Came to this vault to die and lie with Juliet.FTLN 3154Where be these enemies?—Capulet, Montague,FTLN 3155See what a scourge is laid upon your hate,FTLN 3156That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love,FTLN 3157And I, for winking at your discords too,FTLN 3158305Have lost a brace of kinsmen. All are punished.CAPULETFTLN 3159O brother Montague, give me thy hand.FTLN 3160This is my daughter’s jointure, for no moreFTLN 3161Can I demand.MONTAGUEFTLN 3162But I can give thee more,FTLN 3163310For I will ray her statue in pure gold,FTLN 3164That whiles Verona by that name is known,FTLN 3165There shall no figure at such rate be setFTLN 3166As that of true and faithful Juliet.

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CAPULETFTLN 3167As rich shall Romeo’s by his lady’s lie,FTLN 3168315Poor sacrifices of our enmity.PRINCEFTLN 3169A glooming peace this morning with it brings.FTLN 3170The sun for sorrow will not show his head.FTLN 3171Go hence to have more talk of these sad things.FTLN 3172Some shall be pardoned, and some punishèd.FTLN 3173320For never was a story of more woeFTLN 3174Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.All exit.